TELE Exam 4 Notes04/04/13Global Flow of Visual Culture - Powerpoint continuedConcept 2: Mass Globalization- Indigenous mediao Definition: “Media created to reaffirm ethnic and local values over the homogenizing forces of national or global media”o Example: Inuit Broadcasting corporationo Super Hero: Super Shamou - Diasporic Mediao Ex: Bend it Like Beckham (watched Trailer in class) About an Indian girl living in the US who want to play Football (soccer), but her family (espically her mother) doesn’t improve- National media o Definition: “National Media are focused on creating a visual language thatis unique to the culture of that nationo Example1: Bollywood, the film industry based in Mumbai, Indiao Historically National, now Diasporic & Syncretico Genre: Musicalso In-Class assignment: Compare and Contrast changing notions of romance and gender (1969 & 1998)  Watched two clips (of Bollywood songs) from these two time periods Classic Bollywood films are all musicals  Clip 1:o Man talks about a women of his dreamo He wonders when he will meet hero Man driving a car beside a train that a (maybe “the”) woman is ono Girl is looking out the train window (into the distance or maybe looking for the man of her dreams  Clip 2:o Girl is wearing a lot less clothingo Girl is dancingo More up-beat songo Example 2: “Welcome to Nollywood”  Different way that media is made Media is made by everyone from the ground up – which becomes a national filmIn-class viewings of - The Adventures of TinTino Recently made into a movie o Examples of TinTin Adventures: (comics / cartoon) TinTin and the shooting star TinTin in the Congoo Very detailed drawings o Watched the introduction to the film  Transition from the original drawings to the newer animation of the movie  Sets up the movie extremely well  TinTin holds up a drawing of himself and asks “What do you think?” - He is asking his dog, Snow, what he thinks- But he is also asking the audience what they think of the change from comics to the big screen International Shows/ FilmsThings to know from the clips:- The name of the show- General information of the show- Info about the clips we watched Mancora: Film Trailer- From Peru - Sundance Festival 2008 selection- About a guy leaving his home town  going to Mancora o He wants to escape his life - Made at a beach called Mancora- About 2 siblings who haven’t seen each other in a really long time and go to the beach together to escape their lives Peloteros: Film about playing soccer - Watched in intro sequence & the first scene of the movie- It was in Spanish (w/o subtitles)- In Peru Sunday is a day to go out and play soccer Clips from Oman: Arabic Cultural Clips - Clip about Middle eastern parentso Comedic clip of a guy playing crazy Middle Eastern parent - Clip: Nancy Ajram Music Videoo Girl singing and putting weird things into a pot to cook- Fun Fact: Having a unibrow in the Middle east for men is totally acceptableOsuofla in London: Trailer - IBAKA TV- Movie from Nigeria - Movie about a guy who lives in a village, and is told he inherited a lot of money, but he has to go to London to claim it- He finds his brother is married to an attractive lady, and he marries her too - Nigerian movies have really advancedDr. Bello: Nigerian Movie (Nollywood & Hollywood Movie Trailer) - A movie about mixing American medicine with Nigeria healing o Doctors and Healers- Drama- A lot of Nigerian movies are transnational Captain Vidal Dies – Pan’s Labyrinth- Clip from a Mexican film- Genre: Fairytale or dark fantasy - Really different – there is a child protagonist who dies - Has a good resolution in the end, but it is not a happy ending - Batman-type justice: the bad guy dies, but no one is really happy in the endUndergound: film clip- Won an award in the Cannes Festival - Film is about 2 men that are living through conflicts in the aftermath of a civil war- Made in 1995- Seems a little strange (from an American standpoint)o There is a random money in the clipo A girl is flying around o A building blows upo Lots of banquet dinning and brass instruments - Very good