Small Cinemas in Global Markets Genres, Identities, Narratives [Hardcover]

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.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.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.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.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 cullc0