{"title":"Sounds of displacement in Anna Sofie Hartmann’s Giraffe (2019)","authors":"Hannah Paveck","doi":"10.1080/25785273.2021.1883929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2021.1883929","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This review of Giraffe (Anna Sofie Hartmann, 2019) discusses how the Berlin School film considers forms of displacement wrought by global capitalism.","PeriodicalId":36578,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Screens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85790611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Emergence of China-India Film Co-production: policy and practice","authors":"Yanling Yang","doi":"10.1080/25785273.2020.1823074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2020.1823074","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines the recent trend of co-production between China and India since the signing of the Co-production Agreement in 2014 to map out the feature of co-production beyond the West. Drawing on an analysis of the Agreement and policies that were designed to facilitate co-production, interviews with film practitioners, and evaluations of the existing three China-India films Xuan Zang, Kong Fu Yoga and Buddies in India, this paper not only examines the misuse of the term ‘co-production’ but also indicates the politically driven feature of China-India collaboration in practice. This paper argues that co-production has been part of bilateral diplomatic strategy aligning the film industry with China’s statecraft, which provides an alternative perspective beyond the culturally driven and financially driven dimensions of co-production. By mapping out this newly emerging terrain of China-India collaboration, this paper contributes to prevent the vagueness and conflation that the use of the term and practice appears to invite in the discourse of co-production. It also contributes to the current scholarly debates on de-westernization in transnational cinema and Chinese and Indian films and their associated soft power.","PeriodicalId":36578,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Screens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82777616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between cultural performance and cultural activism: contemporary documentary film festivals in India","authors":"G. Battaglia","doi":"10.1080/25785273.2020.1823076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2020.1823076","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The twenty-first century has signalled the explosion of documentary film practices in India. Based on anthropological fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2009, this article analyses contemporary documentary film festivals in India conceived as a combination of cultural performance and cultural activism. Through a combination of first person experience in the field and historical research, it argues for identifying a legacy of contemporary documentary film festivals not only in the most recent history of political activism and filmmaking, but also in early cinematic practices of film exhibition during the colonial period of the Indian subcontinent - that is, when documentary films were part of an already existing public entertainment.","PeriodicalId":36578,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Screens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74030716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is everybody Kung Fu fighting? Indian popular cinema and martial arts films","authors":"Clelia Clini","doi":"10.1080/25785273.2020.1823075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2020.1823075","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Hong Kong’s martial arts film have been popular in India since the 1970s (Srinivas 2012, 66) and they have had a profound influence on the Hindi action films of the 1970s-1980s, as martial arts were progressively integrated into their narratives. This article investigates the appeal of Hong Kong martial arts films, and of the figure of Bruce Lee in particular, with specific reference to the social, cultural and political context of reception in India. The context within which Bruce Lee made his entrance on the Indian screens was in fact critical for his success. In particular, the article examines the appeal of martial arts, and their incorporation in the Hindi action films of the 1970s, in relation to (post)colonial discourses of Asian masculinity. Drawing upon Yvonne Tasker’s examination of the ‘anticolonial narrative’ embedded in Hong Kong martial arts films, the analysis discusses the incorporation of a martial arts style of combat within Indian popular films as a response to colonial and orientalist tropes of Asian effeminacy and softness and argues that martial arts allowed the 1970s Hindi action hero to articulate an alternative, anticolonial, version of Asian masculinity.","PeriodicalId":36578,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Screens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87084340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Repetition and difference in East Asian gothic cinema: the Bunshinsaba film series","authors":"C. Balmain","doi":"10.1080/25785273.2020.1823073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2020.1823073","url":null,"abstract":"In 2004, the first Bunshinsaba film was released. Directed by Ahn Byeong-ki, it was a modest hit at the Korean box-office although it did well enough globally to warrant a dubbed as well as subtitl...","PeriodicalId":36578,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Screens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84788147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socially distanced and yet connected: the case of Netflix’s Homemade","authors":"Pablo Méndez Shiff","doi":"10.1080/25785273.2020.1823079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2020.1823079","url":null,"abstract":"In the midst of the pandemic of Covid-19, Netflix launched a series of 17 short films called Homemade. Filmed by directors from different parts of the world, the project was conceived by Chilean di...","PeriodicalId":36578,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Screens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76734732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neorealist film culture, 1945-1954: Rome, open cinema","authors":"G. Fidotta","doi":"10.1080/25785273.2020.1787674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2020.1787674","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36578,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Screens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73770058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fatih Akın’s cinema and the new sound of Europe","authors":"Ecem Yıldırım","doi":"10.1080/25785273.2020.1785147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2020.1785147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36578,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Screens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83204674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}