@article{THESIS,
      recid = {3752},
      author = {Shan, Lingfeng},
      title = {China’s Film Industry Policies and Implications},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2022-06-04},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {The study discusses China’s film industry and related  policies. First, I discuss China’s film industry’s rapid  development and the policies that contribute to its growth.  I also attempt to depict how the quality of China’s  domestic films changes over different periods.  I group  different policies that have similar effects together.  However, I could not apply the difference-in-difference  model to quantify and disentangle the impact of each  policy. However, using regression models, I assessed the  effects of China’s film censorship and found that the  censorship has little effect on film revenue and may even  increase the viewers’ perception of the film produced.  However, this is not to say that censorships are a  beneficial policy. As discussed, China’s film censorship is  mainly a political tool to control the cultural output and  has been essential for the Party-state's ideology and has  little economic intention. The censorship limited the  creativity of the film producers, and films deemed too  “political” would never survive the censorship. Overall,  the results indicate that the censorship limited the theme  of Chinese-produced films, leaving the user’s perception  and the revenue of the screened film intact. Over time,  Filmmakers have developed ways to pass the censorship by  painting a positive picture of the government in the films.  Topic-modelling of the reviews from IMDB also found that  reviews for China’s films hardly discuss the effect of  censorship. Overall, the study found that censorship’s  impact on the economic returns and viewers’ perception of  screened films in China is negligible, which may give  existing filmmakers little incentive to fight against  censorship.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3752},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.3752},
}