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Small Cinemas in Global Markets

Genres, Identities, Narratives

Edited by Lenuta Giukin; Janina Falkowska and David Desser - Afterword by Dina Iordanova - Contributions by José Cláudio Siqueira Castanheira; David Desser; Catherine Douillet; Janina Falkowska; Catalina Florina Florescu; Nikica Gilić; Lenuta Giukin; Tito Imanda; Andrés Laguna Tapia; Lydia Papadimitriou; Milica Slavkovic; Renata Šukaitytė; Marian Ţuţui and Steven Wingate

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.

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Pages: 290 • Trim: 6½ x 9½

978-0-7391-9652-6 • Hardback • December 2014 • $143.00 • (£110.00)

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Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General

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Genres, Identities, Narratives

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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.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 290 • Trim: 6½ x 9½

978-0-7391-9652-6 • Hardback • December 2014 • $143.00 • (£110.00)

978-0-7391-9653-3 • eBook • December 2014 • $135.50 • (£105.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General

Author

Lenuta Giukin is associate professor of French language and literature at the State University of New York in Oswego.

Janina Falkowska is professor in the Department of Film Studies at the University of Western Ontario.

David Desser is emeritus professor of cinema studies and comparative and world literatures at the University of Illinois.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Small Cinemas Discovered Anew?
Chapter 1: Gender and National Identity Politics in Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Transnational Feminist Quests and Calls for A New French Hybridity, Catherine Douillet
Chapter 2: New Cinema of Nostalgia in Poland, Janina Falkowska
Chapter 3: The Power of the Local: Greek Documentaries in the 2000s, Lydia Papadimitriou

Part II: Affirming Identity
Chapter 4: Police Adjective: A Journey and a Halt Straight to the Center of Words, Catalina Florina Florescu
Chapter 5: Identities in the New Romanian Cinema, Lenuta Giukin
Chapter 6: Bolivian Road Movies, Travel Chronicles, Andrés Laguna Tapia
Chapter 7: The Apparitions of A Day Gone By and The Stasis of the Present in the Films of Šarūnas Bartas, Renata Šukaitytė

Part III: Markets and Industries
Chapter 8: A New Orphan Island Paradise: Hong Kong Cinema and the Struggles of the Local, 1945-1965, David Desser
Chapter 9: New Croatian Cinema: Literature and Genre in the Post-Yugoslav Era, Nikica Gilić
Chapter 10: The State Market and the Indonesian Film Industry, Tito Imanda
Chapter 11: Filmmaking in East Africa: Focus on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, Milica Slavkovic
Chapter 12: New Bulgarian Documentary, Marian Ţuţui

Part IV: Small Screens, Small Narratives
Chapter 13: The Lost Origins of Personal-Screen Cinema, Steven Wingate
Chapter 14 : The Size of the Screens: Technologies and New Models of Seeing and Hearing, José Cláudio Siqueira Castanheira

Afterword, Dina Iordanova

Reviews

This collection draws together cutting edge engagements that prove the grandeur of small cinema. It offers simultaneously critical investigations of the designation small cinema, and overviews of the production conditions in our complexly connected globalized world. It challenges older national and counter-cinematic models of analysis and establishes new paradigms for analyzing the moving-images of the twenty-first century.
— Randall Halle, University of Pittsburgh

These chapters explore a wide range of films through different approaches and analytical methodologies. The contributors persuasively argue for an expanded definition of small cinema, based upon an array of criteria from geopolitical provenance to innovative format.
— Nevena Daković, University of Arts in Belgrade

The editors of this timely volume build on influential work on “minor cinemas” and on related concepts such as small, peripheral, regional, minoritarian, ethnic, local, private and political. At the same time, in what is probably the greatest merit of the book, they refuse to impose a taxonomy on these cinemas or try to make certain films fit standard organizing grids. Theme, genre, historical period, and geography intersect as structuring concepts in the fourteen chapters, which cover evolving and hybrid genres, new markets, funding strategies, and identities.
— Anikó Imre, University of Southern California

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Genres, Identities, Narratives

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Genres, Identities, Narratives

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