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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822905803321

Titolo

Small cinemas in global markets : genres, identities, narratives / / [edited by] Lenuta Giukin, Janina Flakowska, and David Desser ; afterword by Dina Iordanova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-7391-9653-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Disciplina

791.4309

Soggetti

Motion pictures - History and critcism

Motion picture industry - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Small cinemas discovered anew?  Gender and national identity politics in inch©<U+0085> allah dimanche: transnational feminist quests and calls for a new French hybridity / Catherine Couillet -- New cinema of nostalgia in Poland / Janina Falkowska -- The power of the local: Greek documentaries in the 2000s / Lydia Papadoumitriou -- Affirming identity. Police adjective: a journey and a halt straight to the center of words / Catalina Florina Florescu -- Identities in the new Romanian cinema / Lenuta Giukin -- Bolivian road movies, travel chronicles / Andr&#xcc;&#x81;es Laguna Tapia -- The apparitions of a day gone by and the stasis of the present in the films of &#xcc;&#x152;Sar&#xcc;&#x201e;unas Bartas / Renata ©<U+0085>ukaityt? -- Markets and industries. A new orphan island paradise: Hong Kong cinema and the struggles of the local, 1945-1965 / David Desser -- New Croatian cinema: literature and genre in the post-Yugoslav era / Nikica Gili -- The state market and the Indonesian film industry / Tito Imanda -- Filmmaking in East Africa: focus on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda / Milica Slavkovic -- New Bulgarian documentary / Marian ?u?ui -- Small screens, small narratives. The lost origins of personal-screen cinema / Steven Wingate -- The size of the screens: technologies and new models of seeing and hearing / Jos&#xcc;&#x81;e Claudio Siqueira Castanheira -- Afterword / Dina Iordanova.



Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This volume focuses on debates and changes in small cinema industries, analyzing the impact of expansion and diversification of the cinematic product at local, regional, and global levels. Contributors use Western theoretical perspectives with a professional (mostly native) knowledge of the language, cultural realities, and film industry practices.</span></span>