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Towards A New Transnationality

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. .

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Towards A New Transnationality

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  1. Towards A New Transnationality

  2. Traditional Transnational Cinema L’Aubergeespagnol, 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Greek Transionality Greek cinema has always been transnational in less typical ways, the Manaki brothers created the Greek national cinema from

  5. New Greek Transnationality Wasted Youth (ArgyrisPapadimitropoulos, 2011) Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90pgq5vlXto#t=52m07s

  6. Wasted Youth • Story of disaffected youth, skateboarding, partying and listening to music compared with the unfulfilling life of an aging police officer.

  7. 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.

  8. Youth • Young people in these films are approaching adulthood in a globalized world • The films being made about them reflect this new world.

  9. Music • Both films feature prominent soundtracks of non-Greek music.

  10. Independent Cinema • By relying on festival-based word of mouth and small budgets • Wasted Youth premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. • Attenbergalso was distributed widely, premiering at the Venice Film Festival.

  11. 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 aretrasnational – just in a different way. • They engage in a form of international cinema but on their own terms.

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