Palgrave studies in globalization, culture and society
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-525) and index.
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Toward a New Critical Paradigm for the Study of Culture and Globalization; The Historical Context; Toward a New Critical Paradigm; From the Location of Global Culture to the Ethics of Global Culture; The BookPart I Process -- Chapter 2 Coproduction; Coproducing Cuba; Multilateral and Altruistic Film Coproduction; Foreign Investment; or, the Global Taken for the Local; Treaty Coproductions, Regional Alliances, and the Case of MERCOSUR -- Chapter 3 Distribution; Context and Overview; Miramax and the Neoliberal Aesthetic; The Festival Film; Alternative Distribution Models -- Chapter 4 Exhibition; Grupo Chaski and the Microcines Initiative; Multiplexes and the Mexican Cinépolis; Art House Theaters and the MERCOSUR Red de Salas -- Part II Place -- Chapter 5 Argentina; Neoliberalism and the New Argentine Cinema: Adrián Caetano's Pizza, birra, faso and Bolivia; Pablo Trapero: Indie or Industry?; Juan José Campanella: Affect and Neoliberalism; Argentine Film Industry Timeline 1983-2016 -- Chapter 6 Brazil; Aesthetics of Hunger or Cosmetics of Hunger in Cidade de Deus; State Institutions and Social Violence in Hector Babenco's Films; From Ônibus 174 to the Tropa de Elite Films: José Padilha and the Exploitation of Neoliberal Spectacle; Brazilian Film Industry Timeline 1985-2016 -- Chapter 7 Mexico; Alfonso Cuarón and the Geographies of Neoliberalism; Alejandro González Iñárritu: The Outsider as Neither Global Nor Local; Gael García Bernal and the Global Face of Mexican Cinema; Mexican Film Industry Timeline 1926-2016 -- Chapter 8 CODA: On Location-Is Titanic a Mexican Movie?
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Studying the case of Latin American cinema, this book analyzes one of the most public - and most exportable- forms of postcolonial national culture to argue that millennial era globalization demands entirely new frameworks for thinking about the relationship between politics, culture, and economic policies. Concerns that globalization would bring the downfall of national culture were common in the 1990s as economies across the globe began implementing neoliberal, free market policies and abolishing state protections for culture industries. Simultaneously, new technologies and the increased mobility of people and information caused others to see globalization as an era of heightened connectivity and progressive contact. Twenty-five years later, we are now able to examine the actual impact of globalization on local and regional cultures, especially those of postcolonial societies.