Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewThis 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
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
