Global Genres Local Films

Author : Elena Oliete-Aldea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501320165
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Genres, Local Films written by Elena Oliete-Aldea and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acute processes of globalisation at the turn of the century have generated an increased interest in exploring the interactions between the so-called global cultural products or trends and their specific local manifestations. Even though cross-cultural connections are becoming more patent in filmic productions in the last decades, cinema per se has always been characterized by its hybrid, transnational, border-crossing nature. From its own inception, Spanish film production was soon tied to the Hollywood film industry for its subsistence, but other film traditions such as those in the Soviet Union, France, Germany and, in particular, Italy also determined either directly or indirectly the development of Spanish cinema. Global Genres, Local Films: The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Cinema reaches beyond the limits of the film text and analyses and contextualizes the impact of global film trends and genres on Spanish cinema in order to study how they helped articulate specific national challenges from the conflict between liberalism and tradition in the first decades of the 20th century to the management of the contemporary financial crisis. This collection provides the first comprehensive picture of the complex national and supranational forces that have shaped Spanish films, revealing the tensions and the intricate dialogue between cross-cultural aesthetic and narrative models on the one hand, and indigenous traditions on the other, as well as the political and historical contingencies these different expressions responded to.

Author : William V. Costanzo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118712927
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Cinema through Global Genres written by William V. Costanzo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based organization allows students to acquire a clear understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world. Innovative pedagogical approach that uses genres to teach the more unfamiliar subject of world cinema A cluster-based organization provides a solid framework for students to acquire a sharper understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world A “deep focus” section in each chapter gives students information and insights about important regions of filmmaking (India, China, Japan, and Latin America) that tend to be underrepresented in world cinema classes Case studies allow students to focus on important and accessible individual films that exemplify significant traditions and trends A strong foundation chapter reviews key concepts and vocabulary for understanding film as an art form, a technology, a business, an index of culture, a social barometer, and a political force. The engaging style and organization of the book make it a compelling text for both world cinema and film genre courses

Author : Silvia Dibeltulo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319901346
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema written by Silvia Dibeltulo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema offers a unique, wide-ranging exploration of the intersection between traditional modes of film production and new, transitional/transnational approaches to film genre and related discourses in a contemporary, global context. This volume’s content—the films, genres, and movements explored, as well as methodologies used in their analysis—is diverse and, crucially, up-to-date with contemporary film-making practice and theory. Significantly, the collection extends existing scholarly discourse on film genre beyond its historical bias towards a predominant focus on Hollywood cinema, on the one hand, and a tendency to treat “other” national cinemas in isolation and/or as distinct systems of production, on the other. In view of the ever-increasing globalisation and transnational mediation of film texts and screen media and culture worldwide, the book recognises the need for film genre studies and film genre criticism to cast a broader, indeed global, scope. The collection thus rethinks genre cinema as a transitional, cross-cultural, and increasingly transnational, global paradigm of film-making in diverse contexts.

Author : Tommy Gustafsson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074869319X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nordic Genre Film written by Tommy Gustafsson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nordic Genre Film offers a transnational approach to studying contemporary genre production in Nordic cinema.

Author : Hilaria Loyo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501388134
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening the Crisis written by Hilaria Loyo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial collapse of 2008 extended and deepened a prolonged, multilayered crisis that has transformed, often in unexpected ways, how we think about all aspects of social life. Amid these turbulent times, film studies scholars have begun to ask new questions and create fresh strategies in order to integrate intellectual and political work in ways that directly address our current predicament. This timely volume reconsiders the relationships between cinema and society at a time when neoliberal policies threaten not only civic culture but also nearly every aspect of human life. Screening the Crisis brings together established authors as well as brilliant young scholars in the field of film studies to explore the ways in which new tendencies in US cinema enhance awareness of the complexity of the problems facing contemporary society. The issues addressed include economic inequality, shifts in gender roles, racial conflicts, immigration, surveillance practices, the environmental crisis, the politics of housing, and the fragility of nationhood. These questions are explored through in-depth studies and contextualized analyses of a wide variety of recent films, genres, and filmmakers. With its ample range of topics and perspectives, this collection provides an essential reference work for those who want to research how US cinema has responded to the manifold interconnected crises that characterize our current times.

Author : Lindsey Decker
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786837005
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnationalism and Genre Hybridity in New British Horror Cinema written by Lindsey Decker and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an intervention in conversations on transnationalism, film culture and genre theory, this book theorises transnational genre hybridity – combining tropes from foreign and domestic genres – as a way to think about films through a global and local framework. Taking the British horror resurgence of the 2000s as case study, genre studies are here combined with close formal analysis to argue that embracing transnational genre hybridity enabled the boom; starting in 2002, the resurgence saw British horror film production outpace the golden age of British horror. Yet, resurgence films like 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead had to reckon with horror’s vilified status in the UK, a continuation of attitudes perpetuated by middle-brow film critics who coded horror as dangerous and Americanised. Moving beyond British cinema studies’ focus on the national, this book also presents a fresh take on long-standing issues in British cinema, including genre and film culture.

Author : Julie F. Codell
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405132329
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genre, Gender, Race and World Cinema written by Julie F. Codell and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2006-09-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema is an innovative anthology that introduces the study of film theory using the four topics of genre, gender, race, and world cinema, to encourage critical discussion. A major anthology geared towards course use, which covers key concepts in film studies through analysis of important films from American, Asian, European and African cinema Combines formal, historical, cultural, and theoretical approaches to study Analyzes how film represents and influences individual and societal constructs of identity Uses selected readings to introduce inter-textual relations between the readings and the films they discuss Contains section introductions that map the themes and histories of each topic, and raise theoretical issues specific to each

Author : Andrea Virginás
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793613443
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Genres in Hungarian and Romanian Cinema written by Andrea Virginás and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Genres in Hungarian and Romanian Cinema: History, Theory, and Reception discusses how the Hungarian and Romanian film industries show signs of becoming a regional hub within the Eastern European canon, a process occasionally facilitated by the cultural overlap through the historical province of Transylvania. Andrea Virginás employs a film historical overview to merge the study of small national cinemas with film genre theory and cultural theory and posits that Hollywood-originated classical film genres have been important fields of reference for the development of these Eastern European cinemas. Furthermore, Virginás argues that Hungarian and Romanian genre films demonstrate a valid evolution within the given genre’s standards, and thus need to be incorporated into the global discourse on this subject. Scholars of film studies, Eastern European studies, cultural studies, and history will find this book particularly useful.

Author : David Martin-Jones
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748633936
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scotland: Global Cinema written by David Martin-Jones and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland: Global Cinema is the first book to focus exclusively on the unprecedented explosion of filmmaking in Scotland in the 1990s and 2000s. It explores the various cinematic fantasies of Scotland created by contemporary filmmakers from all over the world--including Scotland, England, France, the United States and India--who braved the weather to shoot in Scotland. Significantly broadening the scope of previous debates, Scotland: Global Cinema provides analysis of ten different genres and modes prevalent in the 1990s/2000s: the comedy, road movie, Bollywood extravaganza, (Loch Ness) monster movie, horror film, costume drama, gangster flick, social realist melodrama, female friendship/US indie movie, and art cinema. These various chapters suggest a wealth of different histories of cinema in Scotland, and uncover the numerous identities--national, transnational, diasporic, global/local, gendered, sexual, religious--created by these approaches. Cinema in Scotland is situated in a global context through analysis of the intersection of transversal flows of filmmaking, tourism, trade and transnational fantasy typical of globalization, as they meet and mingle against the world famous cinematic landscapes of Scotland.

Author : David Desser
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739196537
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Cinemas in Global Markets written by David Desser and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Cinemas in Global Markets addresses aspects such as identity, revisiting the past, internationalized genres, new forms of experimental cinema, markets and production, as well as technological developments of alternative small screens that open new perspectives into small cinema possibilities. Small and big markets for small industries reveal an unimagined diversification of the cultural product and consequently the need to analyze the impact at local, regional, and global levels. Much needed to continue and expand the existing scholarship in the field, this volume is based on research by authors who approach their subject from Western theoretical perspectives with a professional (mostly native) knowledge of the language, cultural realities, and film industry practices. It covers aspects from fifteen different countries, including Bolivia, Brazil, China (Hong Kong), Croatia, East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda), Greece, Indonesia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Morocco, and the United States. Since both film and documentary distribution from certain areas of the globe on international markets remains problematic, it is important for the academic field to discuss and circulate them as much as possible, and to create the basis for further exploration. Documenting and reflecting on the role, state, and reception of the film industry provides scholarly understanding to the industry’s wide range of seemingly chaotic technological transformations.