Distant neighbours: the new geography of animated film production in Europe

Abstract

A growing literature on the organization of cultural products industries has highlighted their tendency to cluster in tight agglomerations. This paper explores the implications of a case, animated feature-film production in Europe, which offers a notable exception to this tendency. This case is used to more deeply explore the logic of agglomeration in cultural production and probe exceptions to this logic. Specific institutional strategies to help firms generate relational proximity and create a more supportive ecology are discussed.