CULS30002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jia Zhangke, Buddhist Philosophy, Chungking Express
23 Apr 2017
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Cultural gatekeepers and transnational markets: film festival culture. Film festivals as cultural gatekeepers/ sites of transnational business. International film festival culture in the contemporary era. How film festivals have helped constitute an audience for a particular kind of asian cinema. Consider another type of transnational cinema festival film/ art house cinema". Hk director wong kar-wai and thai director apichatpong weerasethakul as contemporary art house auteurs. Birth of these festivals illustrate close relationship between film festivals, nations states. & wider political current that have existed since the beginning. Venice ff was started in 1932 as a direct result of italian dictator benito mussolini"s enthusiasm for movies as a propaganda tool (david sterrit) Films from fascist germany won mussolini cup 1936 1942. 1937 jury actually wanted to give it to renoir for anti-war film but vetoed. 1 sept opening germany bombed poland; ww11 began. Create international platform to promote italian film industry. Similarly french hoped to counter italy"s influence with cannes.
