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Theatre makers’ experience with crowdfunding : an exploratory study
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Md Fadzil, Fazlinda (2021) Theatre makers’ experience with crowdfunding : an exploratory study. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This thesis is an exploration into theatre makers’ experience with crowdfunding amidst receding funding provision to the arts in the UK, post-2008 austerity. It focusses on the relationship between theatre makers and their backers, and looks at the consequences of collective financial support on their practice and theatrical productions.
Three largest groups of users on the platform crowdfunder.co.uk have been interviewed to investigate aspects of their practice that encourage giving from their backers. Framed by the principles of giving/gifting, their relationships are mapped against the structural dimensions of social capital, in particular, their levels of social capital to reveal an underlying reciprocity of mutual benefit and the public good status of theatre. It also draws on the convertibility of capitals from the financial, social and symbolic capital of theatre makers in their bid to draw in institutional funding for a more sustainable existence.
While donations from social relations through crowdfunding may have filled the gap in arts funding provision, it has also simultaneously given rise to a more diverse range of theatre productions, not necessarily framed by the policy-driven agenda of institutional funders. Hence, by participating in online giving, backers ‘democratically’ vary the theatre funding ecology by lending visibility to wider cohorts of theatre makers and their theatrical offering.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Crowd funding -- Great Britain, Theater -- Great Britain -- Finance | ||||
Official Date: | May 2021 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Bilton, Chris ; White, Tim | ||||
Sponsors: | Mara (Organization : Malaysia) | ||||
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Extent: | 354 leaves : illustrations (some colour) | ||||
Language: | eng |
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