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Title: Context for international coproduction.
Author: Julia Hammett-Jamart
Publication: Metro Magazine (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Australian Teachers of Media
Issue: 140 Page: 122(5)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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When the 'cultural exception' first surfaced in the international free trade arena, twenty-three out of twenty four OECD nations wore subsidizing their national cinemas. (1) The nations who chose to resist regulation of the audiovisual market, at the 'Uruguay Round' of GATT in 1993, articulated their argument in terms of the cultural significance of this medium for the sovereign nation-state and justified protective measures in terms of 'market failure'; i.e. it was postulated that the homogenizing effect of the open-market would efface an industry of importance to national cultural heritage. (2)
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