Reputation and Strength of Ties in Predicting Commercial Success and Artistic Merit of Independents in the Italian Feature Film Industry*

2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 975-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Delmestri ◽  
Fabrizio Montanari ◽  
Alessandro Usai
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Commercial Success ◽  
Strength Of Ties ◽  
Artistic Merit

‘A More Glittering, a Grosser Power’: Fitzgerald and Film

2019 ◽  
pp. 140-175
Author(s):  
Jade Broughton Adams
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Motion Picture Industry ◽  
Fiction Writing ◽  
Commercial Success ◽  
Artistic Merit

Fitzgerald imports cross-stylistic features from the spheres of dance and music into his fiction, and this chapter shows how he also employs filmic technique in his short stories. Joseph Conrad’s Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus was central to Fitzgerald’s fiction-writing credo, encouraging him to make his readers hear, feel, and see. His popular culture references lend themselves to this approach, but nowhere more so than in his references to film. This chapter uses ‘Magnetism’ as a case study, analysing the use of filmic techniques such as close-up, dream sequence, and soundtracking, and offers a reading of George Hannaford as a satiric metaphor for the motion picture industry, reflecting Fitzgerald’s own conflicted relationship with Hollywood. This relationship is also visible in the Pat Hobby stories, which have often been noted for their markedly different style. It is argued that this compressed style metafictively satirises Hobby’s voice, bringing to life the lackadaisical reticence of the industry veteran. This chapter argues that in the Pat Hobby stories Fitzgerald explores, through parody, the shortcomings and inherent potential of the film industry to combine artistic merit and commercial success, using it as a vehicle critically to explore leisure pursuits of the interwar period.

"TOUS LES MATINS DU MONDE": POETRY OF FADING SOUND

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
Yu. A. Finkelshtein ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Viola Da Gamba ◽  
Emotional Perception ◽  
Baroque Music ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
True Values

The object of the article is Alain Corneau's feature film "All the Mornings of the World" ("Tous les matins du monde", 1991). The movie is considered as a work of art with strong postmodern tendencies. The director uses music written in the XVIIth century to create an image of the era. The image of the gambist de Sainte-Colombe is formed on the basis of the aesthetic and emotional perception of his works by the creators of the movie. The timbre of viola da gamba, one of the key features of which is rapid fading, defines the main philosophical idea of the film. The "disadvantage" of the instrument, which contributed to its short life in art, is perceived by the filmmakers as its original value. The rapidly fading sound becomes a metaphorical symbol of dying and rebirth, death and immortality being one. In addition, Baroque music performs the function of temporary "immersion". Using the music of ancient styles, the film industry gains a foothold in true values and an element of authenticity. In turn, by participating in cinema, it appropriates the features of mass culture: lightness, illusiveness, and easy accessibility. Such ambivalence is also characteristic of the plot, in which events that evoke completely modern feelings take place against a historical background far removed from the present moment.

Bava Goes Fashion

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-14
Author(s):  
Roberto Curti ◽  
Roberto Curti
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
The World ◽  
Italian Film

This chapter recounts Mario Bava's seventh official solo feature film as a director, a present-day thriller set in the world of high fashion titled The Atelier of Death (L'atelier della morte). It also mentions Bava's two other Gothic horror movies released in Italy in the summer of 1963 that were destined primarily for foreign markets, especially in America. It discusses I tre volti della paura starring Boris Karloff and Mark Damon, and La frusta e il corpo with Christopher Lee and Daliah Lavi. The chapter describes Bava's debut film La maschera del demonio in 1960, which distributed overseas by American International Pictures under the title Black Sunday. It points out how the Italian film industry had increasingly been involved in bilateral and multinational co-productions since the first agreement signed with France in 1949.

Media Portrayals of the Woman Suffrage Movement

2021 ◽  
pp. 168-184
Author(s):  
Tina Olsin Lent
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Woman Suffrage ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Elizabeth Cady Stanton ◽  
Suffrage Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Shifts ◽  
Woman Suffrage Movement

Contributor Tina Olsin Lent investigates representations of the women in four recent filmic representations of this movement: Ruth Pollak’s 1995 episode of PBS’s American Experience, One Woman, One Vote, Ken Burns’s 1999 documentary, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Katja von Garnier’s 2004 HBO feature, Iron Jawed Angels, and Sarah Gavron’s 2015 feature film, Suffragette. Lent relates the new pattern of films to a number of cultural shifts that arise by the mid-1990s. Women assume more prominent positions within the film industry. Stories centered on women begin to find their way into films circulated in wide-release. Women also become more active in politics. And, notable anniversaries of various woman’s suffrage movements around the world begin to occur. Lent pays particular attention to the ways in which the histories found in the above four films bend to fit the narrative and political priorities surrounding each production.

Vietnamese Cinema: First Views

1991 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Charlot
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
East Bloc ◽  
Department Staff ◽  
History Of ◽  
General Director

Vietnamese cinema has only recently become known outside of the East Bloc countries. The first public showing of a Vietnamese feature film in the United States was that of When the Tenth Month Comes at the 1985 Hawai'i International Film Festival in Honolulu. At the 1987 Festival, a consortium of American film institutions was formed with Nguyen Thu, General Director of the Vietnam Cinema Department, to organize the Vietnam Film Project — the first attempt to introduce an entire new film industry to America. The purpose of this article is to provide a brief description of Vietnamese cinema along with an appreciation of its major characteristics and themes. I base my views on my two visits to the Vietnam Cinema Department in Hanoi — for one week in 1987 and two in 1988 — on behalf of the Hawai'i International Film Festival. During those visits, I was able to view a large number of documentaries and feature films and to discuss Vietnamese cinema with a number of department staff members. I was able to obtain more interviews during the visits of Vietnamese to the Hawai'i International Film Festival in Honolulu. This article cannot claim to be an adequate introduction to the history of Vietnamese cinema, a task I hope will be undertaken with the aid of my informants and the sources I list as completely as possible.

scholarly journals Depicting Scotland: Scotland in Early Films

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Caughie
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Scottish Music ◽  
Music Hall ◽  
International Companies

This chapter by John Caughie addresses both fiction and non-fiction films, dealing with scenics made by international companies, and with the ways in which Scotland was represented in international feature cinema. Particular attention is given to the mapping of scenics and their relation to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travel literature. With regard to the feature film, it follows the traditions of Scott and romanticism, the movement in the 1920s towards Barrie and domestic melodrama, and the perennial return to the comic characters of Scottish music hall. The chapter addresses the question of how it came to be that a country without its own film industry nevertheless secured a place in the international cinematic imaginary.

scholarly journals Política cultural y crisis económica: algunas reflexiones a propósito de la reforma de la Ley del Cine.

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 182 ◽  
Author(s):  
María-Jesús Díaz-González
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Political Decisions

<p>En España, desde el año 2008, las decisiones políticas que están afectando a la industria cinematográfica se han justificado con frecuencia por la situación general de crisis económica. Una de estas decisiones ha sido la reforma de la Ley del Cine, que entró en vigor a comienzos de 2016. El objetivo de este trabajo es reflexionar sobre aquellos aspectos de la reforma que pueden tener mayor repercusión en el fomento de la cinematografía; y aportar argumentos para valorar si estas reformas se han debido a la crisis económica o a las decisiones de política cultural. Los resultados indican que las reformas con mayor repercusión podrían ser: las características de las nuevas ayudas para la producción de largometrajes; las obligaciones de gasto en el territorio nacional; la intensidad máxima permitida para las ayudas; la obligación de reembolso de las ayudas en algunos casos; y la regulación de las producciones que pueden ser consideradas obras difíciles.</p><p>Since 2008, the financial crisis has often been cited as justification for certain political decisions affecting the film industry in Spain. One of these decisions was the reform of the Cinema Act, which came into effect in early 2016. The aim of this work is, firstly, to reflect on those aspects of the reform that are likely to have the greatest impact on the promotion of filmmaking, and secondly, to provide some arguments to assess whether these reforms can be put down to the financial crisis or to cultural policy decisions. The results show that the reforms likely to have the greatest impact are the characteristics of new subsidies for feature film production, the obligations to spend on national territory, the maximum permitted subsidy intensity, the obligations to reimburse subsidies in some cases, and the regulation of productions that could be considered difficult works.</p>

scholarly journals The Success of Motion Pictures

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Keil ◽  
Tobias Mosig
Keyword(s):  
Potential Risk ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Commercial Success ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Film Stars ◽  
The One

THE SUCCESS OF MOTION PICTURES – AN ECONOMIC GAMBLE: SELECTED MOVIE EXPLOITATION PHENOMENA More than 5,000 marketable movies are produced worldwide every year - a risky economic gamble running into billions. Despite the potential risk of commercial failure, film producers still try to achieve outstanding box-office results. There are also special movies that are able to preserve or even increase their intrinsic value due to the longevity of their commercial success. This article focuses on distinctive movie exploitation phenomena, which can be observed worldwide. These phenomena show the unpredictability of film success due to the fact that the cycles, the duration, and the progress of film exploitation are unforeseeable. MythSuccess is the big myth of the international film industry: on the one hand enormous profits, glamour, film stars, red carpet shows at Cannes, Berlin, and Venice - the big film festivals. And as climax - the Oscars in...

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