Four-way traffic and Poor Directional Sense
Media dump of one article on The Globalization of US and Asian Film industries, since I had to provide this in for a classmate anyways. Abstract: This article investigates how globalization is affecting film industries in the USA and Asia. It argues that these industries are becoming more closely integrated with one another both materially and aesthetically, and that this in turn is leading to the denationalization of individual films and film industries on both sides of the Pacific. The article explores how globalization is experienced differently by different film industries - and by different sectors within individual industries - and how it entails both losses and opportunities for Asian film makers. Taking the contemporary Hollywood and East Asian martial arts film as an exemplary cultural style of globalization, it also looks at how integration involves both cultural homogenization and the production of difference. Specific topics discussed include the growth of Hollywood’s Asian markets, Jackie Chan and the flow of Hong Kong talent into Hollywood, Hollywood remakes of South Korean movies, the resurgence of Asian film industries, Hollywood’s local-language film production and Zhang Yimou’s Hero. Educational/private use only.
In other news, reading week is coming up. In re-evaluating my projected academic pursuits, I remain as ambivalent as ever in declaring a major. I can have at most three concentrations of studies, plus a handful of electives. However, while I've discovered there are disciplines that bore me, I've uncovered expodentially more areas of intrigue. Let's play the musical chairs game, because schemeness has her eye on too much:
- Diaspora & Transnational Studies
- East Asian Studies (new faculty grants recently for better education!)
- English
- Environmental Ethics (minor)
- Film Studies
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Urban Studies (initial choice, but urban geography isn't so thrilling)
- Visual Studies
As every Existentialist remarks, mankind is condemned to be free. At some level, I am insatiably delighted to have the freedom to have a thoroughly infinite source to elect certain academic interests over others. Only a large university and a broad faculty can give me this, and I cannot be more joyous at the prospect.
In other news, reading week is coming up. In re-evaluating my projected academic pursuits, I remain as ambivalent as ever in declaring a major. I can have at most three concentrations of studies, plus a handful of electives. However, while I've discovered there are disciplines that bore me, I've uncovered expodentially more areas of intrigue. Let's play the musical chairs game, because schemeness has her eye on too much:
- Diaspora & Transnational Studies
- East Asian Studies (new faculty grants recently for better education!)
- English
- Environmental Ethics (minor)
- Film Studies
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Urban Studies (initial choice, but urban geography isn't so thrilling)
- Visual Studies
As every Existentialist remarks, mankind is condemned to be free. At some level, I am insatiably delighted to have the freedom to have a thoroughly infinite source to elect certain academic interests over others. Only a large university and a broad faculty can give me this, and I cannot be more joyous at the prospect.