Globalization, border-crossing, migration
What is border-crossing?
Border-crossing is the physical act of crossing a border either at a border crossing point or another point along the border.
Is Even the Rain an example of Hollywood cinema?
No
What are the main characters' names? (Please list 3 names)
Sebastian, Costa, and Daniel
What is transnational cinema?
Cinema that transcends borders and that applies to the film industry in terms of production, distribution,, and consumption
What other movie (that we've watched in class so far) has included/represented border-crossing?
What is migration?
Migration is the movement of people from one country, locality, place of residence, etc. to settle in another.
What type of cinema is Even the Rain?
Transnational
Who is the director of Even the Rain?
Icíar Bollaín
Briefly describe the plot of Even the Rain
Sebastian and Costa begin filming their movie (about Columbus colonizing the Natives) in Bolivia, but the Cochabamba water wars break out which prevents them from being able to finish.
What are some of the indicators of globalization? Give at least 1-2 of the possible answers.
Global labor, global capital, digitalization, changes in the workplace, outsourcing and offshoring, deregulation and privatization, oil scarce resources, intellectual property rights
Is Even the Rain an example of globalization?
Yes
What country does Bollywood relate to?
India
What conflict do the Bolivian people have?
The Cochabamba water wars, (the water was privatized, and the peoples' right to it was taken away because they could no longer affordit)
Briefly describe The Battle of Algiers
The FLN revolt against the French military in attempt to gain liberation from colonization
How is the cinema of globalization characterized by Shaw?
As films that explicitly address questions raised by globalization, particularly 'the ways in which relations of power between nations and peoples are played out on screen'
What is globalization?
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
No, because they don't permanently move there for residence.
What does the water symbolize? (to the Bolivian people)
Conscience and basic humanity
Briefly describe the plot of Bicycle Thieves
How does Tom Zaniello select for the ways in which films address key indicators of globalization, particularly as they relate to... what?
Issues of global labor histories, multinational corporations, and the daily lives of working-class people in the context of developing multinational globalization, or as they relate to: transnational organizations, global labor, global capital, digitalization, outsourcing and offshoring, etc.
Why is Even the Rain an example of globalization?
Sebastian and Costa's decision to film in Bolivia (a poor country) in order to avoid having to pay their actors well is colonial exploitation
Why/how is Even the Rain a transnational film?
How does the film represent colonialism?
The government privatizing the water is an act of colonialism that parallels the colonialism done by Christopher Columbus.
Briefly describe the plot of Babel
Four interconnected stories relate to the shooting of an American tourist in Morocco, from the two Moroccan boys with the rifle, to the deaf teenager in Japan, and the nanny in America who crosses the border to Mexico with her two charges.
What does Mette Hjort say one of the key issues of many studies of transnational cinema is?
The use of the term 'transnational' as 'shorthand for a series of assumptions about the networked and globalized realities that are those of a contemporary situation,' whereby those assumptions end up 'playing a strongly homogenizing role' in the face of a lack of conceptual definitions of the term.