FILM 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Third Cinema, World Cinema, Rhizome
20 Jan 2018
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World cinema is kind of a grab bag category that includes any cinematic works that are not mainstream european and/or north american. Today, world or global cinema is linked with the emergence of a transnational industry, where globalization, the rise of technologies and the development of global communication networks facilitate communication and collaboration. The best image to convey world cinema and its transnationalism is the rhizome, as explained by deleuze and guattari: It is comprised not of units but of dimensions, or rather directions in motion. It has neither beginning nor end, but always a middle (milieu) from which it grows and which it overspills. "". Transnationalism is the ease with which people and capital now cross borders on a global scale. The opening of borders, the increased circulation of people and capital, as well as the in uence of hollywood has all been factors leading to the emergence of transnational cinema.
