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Netflix and Changes in the Hollywood Film Industry

넷플릭스와 할리우드 영화산업의 변화

  • 주정숙 (중원대학교 국제통상학과)
  • Received : 2020.08.31
  • Accepted : 2020.10.20
  • Published : 2020.10.31

Abstract

This paper aims to explore and shed light on how the rise of streaming services has been affecting the media landscape in the recent years by looking at the conflicts between the Hollywood film industry and Netflix. It especially examines Netflix's disregard for the theatrical release, as it is the most portentous issue that could reshape the film industry, and Hollywood's opposition to it as revealed through the 2019 Academy Awards where the issue was brought into sharp relief. At the same time, this paper also questions whether theatrical distribution makes a film any more cinematic by examining how Hollywood film production has been largely concentrated on tentpoles and franchises, while Netflix has been producing diverse films often shunned by the studios. In this light, it concludes the changes wrought by Netflix, including its bypassing of the theatrical release, are not likely to be reversed.

본 논문은 할리우드 영화산업과 넷플릭스 간 갈등의 고찰을 통해 스트리밍 서비스의 부상이 미디어 지형에 어떠한 영향을 미쳐왔는지 밝히고자 한다. 특히 영화산업의 재편을 가져올 수 있는 가장 중요한 문제로써 극장을 거치지 않고 자사 플랫폼에 영화를 공개하는 넷플릭스의 개봉방식을 살펴보고 이에 대한 반발이 크게 불거진 2019년 아카데미 영화제를 중심으로 할리우드의 반대를 살펴본다. 동시에 최근 할리우드 영화제작이 프랜차이즈나 텐트 폴 등 대작 영화에 집중되어 왔으며 반면 넷플릭스는 스튜디오들이 기피하는 다양한 영화들을 제작해 왔음을 살펴 본다. 이에 본 논문은 극장 개봉 여부가 영화를 더욱 영화적으로 만드는지에 대해 의문을 제기하며 넷플릭스가 할리우드 영화산업에 가져온 변화를 막을 수 없음을 주장한다.

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