Institutional Strategies for Integrating Political Economy Perspectives into Film Production Curricula

چکیده

The global film industry is dominated by conglomerates and streaming platforms that commodify creativity, enforce labor precarity, and shape ideological output through ownership concentration and algorithmic control yet most film production curricula remain narrowly vocational prioritizing technical skills and industry readiness while marginalizing political economy analysis of power structures financing global value chains and cultural hegemony this metasynthesis of 18 qualitative studies from film schools worldwide 2010–2025 identifies institutional strategies for embedding PE perspectives into hands-on training including hybrid core modules fusing theory with production practice critical production assignments requiring economic audits of student films faculty development in PEC frameworks alternative partnerships with unions and collectives reformed assessment emphasizing reflexivity and governance shifts away from neoliberal KPIs barriers such as accreditation pressures industry capture and student debt-driven pragmatism are significant but surmountable through activist leadership successful cases demonstrate enhanced graduate critical consciousness alternative career pathways and resistance to precarity without PE integration film education reproduces compliant cultural labor for capitalist media systems this article provides a replicable framework for transforming curricula into sites of ideological contestation equipping filmmakers to both navigate and challenge the political economy they inherit institutional reform here is not optional but essential for emancipatory media practice in the platform era.