towards a new transnationality
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Towards A New Transnationality. Traditional Transnational Cinema. L’Auberge espagnol , with an ensemble cast and a marketable love story represents a transnationality based in tradition. Likewise, A Touch of Spice brings an international story to the screen with similar sensibilities. . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Towards A New Transnationality
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Traditional Transnational Cinema
L’Auberge espagnol, with an ensemble cast and a marketable love story represents a transnationality based in tradition.
Likewise, A Touch of Spice brings an international story to the screen with similar sensibilities.
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Transnationality Both of these films seek to embrace
“transnationality” to reach a larger audience – they play to a multinational audience and derive transnationality from both international cast and production company.
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Greek Transionality
Greek cinema has always been transnational in less typical ways, the Manaki brothers created the Greek national cinema from
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New Greek TransnationalityWasted Youth (Argyris Papadimitropoulos, 2011)
Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90pgq5vlXto#t=52m07s
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Wasted Youth
Story of disaffected youth, skateboarding, partying and listening to music compared with the unfulfilling life of an aging police officer.
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Attenberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2582qyfXOSs
A film that focuses on the growth of the main character among the isolation of an industrial town in the Balkans while her father dies of cancer.
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Youth Young people in these films are approaching
adulthood in a globalized world
The films being made about them reflect this new world.
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Music Both films feature prominent soundtracks of
non-Greek music.
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Independent Cinema By relying on festival-based word of mouth
and small budgets
Wasted Youth premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Attenberg also was distributed widely, premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
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Together these films present a new concept of transnationality that is not so entrenched in traditional means of film marketing, distribution.
Films such as these are trasnational – just in a different way.
They engage in a form of international cinema but on their own terms.