Small Cinemas in Global Markets: Genres, Identities, Narratives
Lanham: Lexington Books (2015), xxiv, 294 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 978-0-7391-9652-6 (ebook); 978-0-7391-9652-6 (print)
"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." (Publisher description)
I. SMALL CINEMAS DISCOVERED ANEW?
1 Gender and National Identity Politics in Inch'Allah Dimanche: Transnational Feminist Quests and Calls for a New French Hybridity / Catherine Douillet, 3
2 New Cinema of Nostalgia in Poland / Janina Falkowska, 17
3 The Power of the Local: Greek Documentaries in the 2000s / Lydia Papadimitriou, 31
II. AFFIRMING IDENTITY
4 Police, Adjective: A Journey and a Halt Straight to the Center of Words / Catalina Florina Florescu, 51
5 Identities in the New Romanian Cinema / Lenuta Giukin, 67
6 Bolivian Road Movies, Travel Chronicles / Andrés Lagua Tapia, 87
7 The Apparitions of a Day Gone By and the Stasis of the Present in the Films of Sarunas Bartas / Renata Sukaityté, 107
III. MARKETS AND INDUSTRIES
8 A New Orphan Island Paradise: Hong Kong Cinema and the Struggles of the Local, 1945-1965 / David Desser, 123
9 New Croatian Cinema: Literature and Genre in the Post-Yugoslav Era / Nikica Gilic, 151
10 The State Market and the Indonesian Film Industry / Tito Imanda, 171
11 Filmmaking in East Africa: Focus on Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda / Milica Slavkovic, 189
12 New Bulgarian Documentary / Marian Tutui, 215
SMALL SCREENS, SMALL NARRATIVES
13 The Lost Origins of Personal-Screen Cinema / Steven Wingate, 231
14 The Size of the Screens: Technologies and New Models of Seeing and Hearing / José Cláudio Siqueira Castanheira, 247
Afterword: Unseen Cinema: Notes on Small Cinemas and the Transnational / Dina Iordanova, 259
1 Gender and National Identity Politics in Inch'Allah Dimanche: Transnational Feminist Quests and Calls for a New French Hybridity / Catherine Douillet, 3
2 New Cinema of Nostalgia in Poland / Janina Falkowska, 17
3 The Power of the Local: Greek Documentaries in the 2000s / Lydia Papadimitriou, 31
II. AFFIRMING IDENTITY
4 Police, Adjective: A Journey and a Halt Straight to the Center of Words / Catalina Florina Florescu, 51
5 Identities in the New Romanian Cinema / Lenuta Giukin, 67
6 Bolivian Road Movies, Travel Chronicles / Andrés Lagua Tapia, 87
7 The Apparitions of a Day Gone By and the Stasis of the Present in the Films of Sarunas Bartas / Renata Sukaityté, 107
III. MARKETS AND INDUSTRIES
8 A New Orphan Island Paradise: Hong Kong Cinema and the Struggles of the Local, 1945-1965 / David Desser, 123
9 New Croatian Cinema: Literature and Genre in the Post-Yugoslav Era / Nikica Gilic, 151
10 The State Market and the Indonesian Film Industry / Tito Imanda, 171
11 Filmmaking in East Africa: Focus on Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda / Milica Slavkovic, 189
12 New Bulgarian Documentary / Marian Tutui, 215
SMALL SCREENS, SMALL NARRATIVES
13 The Lost Origins of Personal-Screen Cinema / Steven Wingate, 231
14 The Size of the Screens: Technologies and New Models of Seeing and Hearing / José Cláudio Siqueira Castanheira, 247
Afterword: Unseen Cinema: Notes on Small Cinemas and the Transnational / Dina Iordanova, 259
