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Zusatztext This collection of essays will forever change the way you think about world cinema. Bringing together some of our finest writers on film, technology and globalisation, World Cinema On Demand maps the diverse circulatory terrain of cinema-in-the-world – from Netflix and Mubi to illegal torrents, fan groups and social media platforms. Informationen zum Autor Stefano Baschiera is Professor of Film and Screen Industries at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. His work on European cinema, material culture and film industries has been published in a variety of edited collections and journals, including Film International , Bianco e Nero , New Review of Film and Television Studies and NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies . He is also the co-editor of the book Italian Horror Cinema (2016) and Film and Domestic Space:Architectures, Representations, Dispositif (2020). Alexander Fisher is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he teaches modules on World Cinema. He has published widely on the topic of African cinema, focusing on its production and distribution, as well as its aesthetic dimensions. His work has appeared in journals such as Music, Sound, and the Moving Image , Visual Anthropology , The Journal of African Cinemas and The Journal of African Media Studies , as well as numerous edited collections. Klappentext World Cinema on Demand brings together diverse contributions by leading film and media scholars to examine world cinema's dialogue with the transformations that took place during 2010-2014, engaging directly with ongoing debates surrounding national cinema, transnational identity, and cultural globalization, as well as ideas about genre, fandom and cinephilia. The contributions look at individual national patterns of online distribution, engaging with archives, SVODS and torrent communities. The essays also investigate the cross-cultural presence of world cinema in non-domestic online markets (such as Europe's, for example). As a result, the volume sheds light on geo-politically specific issues of film circulation, consumption and preservation within a range of culturally diverse filmmaking contexts, including case studies from India, Nigeria, Mexico and China. In this way, the collection maps the impact of different online formats of distribution in the understanding of World Cinema, underlining the links between distribution and media provisions as well as engaging with new forms of intermediation. Vorwort Brings together leading film and media scholars to examine world cinema’s dialogue with the transformations invoked by online distribution during the period 2010-2014, when digital distribution and global media flows came to the forefront. Zusammenfassung World Cinema on Demand brings together diverse contributions by leading film and media scholars to examine world cinema’s dialogue with the transformations that took place during 2010-2014, engaging directly with ongoing debates surrounding national cinema, transnational identity, and cultural globalization, as well as ideas about genre, fandom and cinephilia. The contributions look at individual national patterns of online distribution, engaging with archives, SVODS and torrent communities. The essays also investigate the cross-cultural presence of world cinema in non-domestic online markets (such as Europe’s, for example). As a result, the volume sheds light on geo-politically specific issues of film circulation, consumption and preservation within a range of culturally diverse filmmaking contexts, including case studies from India, Nigeria, Mexico and China. In this way, the collection maps the impact of different online formats of distribution in the understanding of World Cinema, underlining the links between distribution and media provision...
