This is one of those fantastic episodes where you leave thinking "well, my to-watch list just doubled, and in a direction I barely knew existed." Thanks for the awesomeness, CrashCourse!
I'm surprised that Mexican cinema wasn't referred to. They have produced so many great filmmakers that broke out in Hollywood like Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
And also in the past! Mexico film industry has a very interesting movies from 1930 to 1960, with many costumbrist movies that reflect the rural and traditional mexico, one of my favorites is "Macario" showing the story of a poor man that made a deal with the death and becomes rich in colonial mexico by healing people with the help of the death. This kind of movies also make influence in the cinema of Yugoslavia and even there is a movie in the cinetheque of Belgrade that is the only copy of that film, made in mexico. Hope that if there is more cinema history there will be a entire episode of mexican film history
Mexico have a very intersting history in cinema. Great directors like El Indio Fernández and Ismael Rodríguez, cinematographers like Gabriel Figueroa and Mario Moreno Cantinflas, a comedian admired by Chaplin.
I knew straight away you were going to mention Egyptian cinema from the tarboosh in the thumbnail. I am trying to discover more about my country's certainly very interesting cinema. There's Al-Haram(translated as the sin),'Bedaya we nehaya(a beginning and an ending), al mowaten masri (War in the Land of Egypt), The Land, terrorism and kebab and much more. More recently though there are films such as Ibrahim labyad, sorry for the disturbance, the blue elephant, the Yacoubian building, Asmaa and the list goes on. I think you shouldn't get too carried away with the effects or the acting skills of some of the minor actors because they are not always on point, but they definitely do portray interesting aspects of Egyptian society.
i thought it was interestinng to learn about egyptian cinema, too. i found it really surprising that they didnt cover Nollywood (Nigeria) and their very american-like popular culture
I like how at the end you say "today we explored" instead of "today you learned", which always felt really patronizing on some other crash course channels.
Please make more videos! This course was extremely (in)formative, I just wish the videos were longer to explore more details and give us more movie recommendations. Thank you for the content!!
A Separation is one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. The people are complex, the feelings are complex, the morality is complex. It's riveting and unforgettable.
Since we are talking about the Cinema Novo movement, I would like to recommend "O Pagador de Promessas" (Keeper of Promises), a 1962 film about a farmer who, in order to fulfill a promise he made to a saint called Santa Bárbara, carries a huge cross on his back from one side of Salvador to another. It deals with themes such as religion, poverty, journalism, sensationalism, corruption and the loss of innocence. It kind of resumes a series of common events in Brazilians day to day life in a nutshell. Some scenes made me think of Aronofsky's Mother. I highly recommend it in case someone got interested in our Cinema.
The night of counting the years (The Mummy) is my favorite film of all time! Glad it got a mention because there's nothing else like it. Made by painter and intellectual Shady Abd El-Salam, each frame in that movie is goddamn poetry! It's available on youtube if anyone is interested (albeit, in a low quality).
I think it would definitely be worth doing a second film history just on world cinema. I'm currently taking a course in South Korean Film and it is really interesting to learn how the industry developed despite division, military regime, censorship and Hollywood dominance. I'd love to get a more in depth look at global cinema :)
Crash course cinema is amazing and have watched the videos several times over. I have learned so much and had so much fun doing it. I do wish the independent film section was long with such great directors but still fantastic. Bravo! Bravo! Standing ovation and eagle punch
No mention of Nollywood?! I'm appalled, I demand a part three to remedy this error. Oh and for anyone interested in learning a bit more about Iranian New Wave films I recommend Kyle Kallgreen's video essay on Jahar Panahi's This Is Not A Film
I know this episode was about cinema outside of Europe, but as a swede, I'm a little sad that Ingmar Bergman hasn't been mentioned yet in any episode. For those who think that they dont know who Bergman is, I'll just say this; he made that movie where a guy plays chess with the Grim Reaper. That's probably a scene that everyone in the world knows, even if they dont know anything about artsy old swedish cinema. XD
We need a season two of this series where you guys actually go into depth with some of these film movements and waves. The first 12 episodes were great with how you guys went into such great and highly detailed and well organized videos on a single subject matter. But the last three episodes had to condense entire decades of film history into a single episode. While I can understand your motive for this, what with only having 16 episodes, there is so much more we can learn that didn't get any attention (Italian Neo-Realism) or just barely got glossed over (Pretty much all of Japan and Animation).
Great as always I´m a little disappointed because Mexican cinena didn´t show but I hope we could see a little of Luis Buñel or Jodorowsky next episode :D Congratulations
But Anime is so much better than any other animation in the world. I believe it has had a great cultural impact worldwide and is worthy of four full episodes in this series
Thought you were gonna mention more recent Brazilian movies and directors, such as City of God and Fernando Meirelles. Regardless, good job pronouncing the names, Craig. Not perfect, obviously, but much better than I was expecting.
I was expecting Tunisian cinema to be among the mentioned, as i think it is the most experimental, avant gardiste and "free" in North Africa & the middle east. And it's amongst the oldest as it has been present since 1896, when the Lumière brothers began showing animated films in the streets of Tunis. ...it's "cinema d'auteur" kind of cinema. But hey.. it's a nice video anyway !
I generally only hear and read about films from a handful of countries that are mostly European (and of coarse the U.S).. Thanks for dedicating several episodes to the cinema of the rest of the world. There's plenty out there that could inspire us cinephiles to do some exploring.
Mexico and Argentina had enormous movies industries going back the 1910s through the early 1960s. The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema produced the Ranchero and Rumbera Musicals that we’re extremely popular throughout Latin America. Argentina film industry produced sophisticated light-hearted romantic comedies. As well as, period dramas, gaucho and religious theme epics. Many Mexican and Latin American actors came to Hollywood to work such as Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendariz, Katy Jurado, Fernando Lamas and Cantiflas to name a few.
I'm sad you didn't mention mexican movies from the 40s and 50s, they may not be very well known in Europe or the US, but they are very popular in all of Latin America, and the movies and the actors are still part of the popular culture to this day, everyone knows what happened to Torito, everyone knows what "Cantinflear" is
I love this series don't get me wrong, but I would have rather if each of these regions of the world would have gotten their episodes. Now I'm fascinated to know about the film industry of these countries and he just brushed over a lot of information. I still love it I just wished we could have gone deeper, rather than just bare bones of information.
it would had been interesting to heard about Ecuador's Touche Film's Studio because it's the biggest RUclips based sketch and movie company. It controls EnchufeTV Wich has almost 15 million subscribers and has produced some movies.
Mostly probable do to the fact that I'm from a US I am always happily surprise when I see films from other countries be them romantic comedies from France and Mexico to Horror movies like Under The Shadow from Iran and Juan of the Dead from Cube. There's something nice to see these movies that are somewhat different but at the same time relatable on some level that entertainment can touch.
Yeah, South America? The biggest film producer, distributor and innovator by far in Latin America is Mexico. So skipping Mexico in this episode is very weird. The narrator should've said that he was going to concentrate on "Latin America" instead of "South America" so he would be able to talk about Mexico's enormous film industry.
... Just a quick mention of Argentina. I'm disappointed :c We have two Oscar winning movies and others got nominated several times. Also no Mexican cinema. I would say that one is also pretty relevant.
Serious question: What's with the dead animal behind the Senegalese film-maker at 4:17? I am guessing it's an elephant? I am not getting why it is there.
Despite being Cuban, I had little to no knowledge about Cuban cinema *edit:* Ah it makes sense now. I was born in the 90s, the same decade Cuban cinema declined
I need some help.. I am creating a powerpoint on the history of movies and it is going to be just a summary. You made so many videos the history of movies. Which one would you recommend for me to further my research? @Crashcourse
I noticed you kept calling directors and actors from Africa and Latin America "indigenous". What makes them "indigenous" and not directors from America, France, or Italy?
I never stopped to think that any countries in Africa were making movies. This was a wake up call as to how Eurocentric I am. Of course they do!! Why wouldn't they??!
Will you talk more about contemporary world cinema? I didn't understand if this episode focused exclusively in the cinema novo/new cinema age or if it is suppose to talk about those regions' cinemas as a whole. (I ask that because, as a brazilian, I feel you skipped the most important cinema movement my country has ever had, with movies like city of god and tropa de elite; both of which got more public and critical acclaim than anything glauber rocha and his movement ever made)
This video made me wonder: Why is it that I, as a central European person, know more about the media industries of the Americas, Asia and Australia, than I know about those from Africa, even though Africa is so close and I even got relatives in Gambia? I mean, obviously racism/xenophobia play probably some role in this, but I'd really like to see _someone_ (wink wink) do an analysis of the historical, political and what not reasons behind this. After all, one of the best ways to get rid of a problem is to properly understanding what causes the problem.
Because they have no money and you need money both to produce films and to advertise them. As for Asian cinema most of what you know will be from Japan and South Korea which are both incredibly rich countries. Chinese films don't usually get much exposure in the west and often a film you think is Chinese might actually be from a richer place like Taiwan, Shanghai or Hong Kong (that's where Wong Kar Wai is from and makes his films for instance, Zhimou is actually Chinese and it shows in the huge difference between their movies). I think it's kind of the same with Latin American. If you remove Mexico from the equation, there's probably not too much famous stuff left. I've never even heard from a film from like half of the countries. Brazil has a pretty big industry though and a few films that are reasonably well known but not necessarily more than a handful (and I do mean handful literally, 5).
tobi2731 I know quite a few Chinese movies, and not just American co-productions. As for South Korea, there is comics (manwhas), music, games and also of course movies (hooray for Oldboy and co.). Also mmo's I guess. As for Latin America, that is probably very specific to my interests, but there are quite a few metal bands I know (i.e. Six Magics from Chile and Sepultura from Brazil).
Oh, I was only talking about movies but you talked about all media in the original post. I would assume music is cheaper to make and distribute overall, so I guess with music Latin America could be doing considerably better than with movies. I've never heard of any Latin American Metal bands :D - though I have listened to a few Latin American albums (all progressive rock and I assume also rather special interest, although Alturas de Machu Picchu by Los Jaivas should have a rather broad appeal if people would in fact listen to it). Just out of curiosity which Chinese films do you know?
Well, I am a huge fan of Chinese art movies, such as House of Flying Daggers and Hero, which have been mentioned in the video. I've also seen Jet Li's Fearless, several old Jackie Chan movies back when I was a kid (yes, also the ones produced in his home land), then there was the relatively new fantasy movie with the CG monsters, I forgot the name tho ... I really liked Musa, but that one was a South Korean/ Chinese co-production, but mainly made in Korea, so I am not sure that one counts. Oh yeah, and of course I saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Physical distance is really a non issue when it comes to entertainment nowadays, I am a Brazilian living in the US and most of the TV I watch is British and Japanese. Even Hollywood is 2,5000 miles (aprx. 4,000 km) from where I live. Another thing is that because for instance American movies have dominated for so long there is far less to do with localization, because people from all over the world have grown up on American movies they can relate to and understand the tropes and themes of American movies very easily. I was raised 6,000 miles from Burbank yet I still grew up watching Disney movies.
Crash course cinema is by far my favorite crash course seminar to date
This is one of those fantastic episodes where you leave thinking "well, my to-watch list just doubled, and in a direction I barely knew existed."
Thanks for the awesomeness, CrashCourse!
especially love these world cinema videos, i wish they were longer!
RIGHT!?!?!
I wanted to see their take on mexico cinema
Hopefully not as long as some of the Bollywood movies. :P
I'm surprised that Mexican cinema wasn't referred to.
They have produced so many great filmmakers that broke out in Hollywood like Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
And also in the past! Mexico film industry has a very interesting movies from 1930 to 1960, with many costumbrist movies that reflect the rural and traditional mexico, one of my favorites is "Macario" showing the story of a poor man that made a deal with the death and becomes rich in colonial mexico by healing people with the help of the death. This kind of movies also make influence in the cinema of Yugoslavia and even there is a movie in the cinetheque of Belgrade that is the only copy of that film, made in mexico. Hope that if there is more cinema history there will be a entire episode of mexican film history
jbenjamin94
...I wouldn't hold my breath for that one.
also the Santo movies! - those were lauded in Europe as avatn garde.
Also Luis Buñuel worked in México for a long time!
Mexico have a very intersting history in cinema. Great directors like El Indio Fernández and Ismael Rodríguez, cinematographers like Gabriel Figueroa and Mario Moreno Cantinflas, a comedian admired by Chaplin.
Hey you didn't talk about the film industry in *
City of God in Brazilian cinema is amazing
Agreed. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned.
HOLY COW!!...Literally
You guys should start a Crash Course Art History!
I knew straight away you were going to mention Egyptian cinema from the tarboosh in the thumbnail. I am trying to discover more about my country's certainly very interesting cinema. There's Al-Haram(translated as the sin),'Bedaya we nehaya(a beginning and an ending), al mowaten masri (War in the Land of Egypt), The Land, terrorism and kebab and much more. More recently though there are films such as Ibrahim labyad, sorry for the disturbance, the blue elephant, the Yacoubian building, Asmaa and the list goes on. I think you shouldn't get too carried away with the effects or the acting skills of some of the minor actors because they are not always on point, but they definitely do portray interesting aspects of Egyptian society.
i thought it was interestinng to learn about egyptian cinema, too. i found it really surprising that they didnt cover Nollywood (Nigeria) and their very american-like popular culture
I like how at the end you say "today we explored" instead of "today you learned", which always felt really patronizing on some other crash course channels.
Please make more videos! This course was extremely (in)formative, I just wish the videos were longer to explore more details and give us more movie recommendations. Thank you for the content!!
A Separation is one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. The people are complex, the feelings are complex, the morality is complex. It's riveting and unforgettable.
Since we are talking about the Cinema Novo movement, I would like to recommend "O Pagador de Promessas" (Keeper of Promises), a 1962 film about a farmer who, in order to fulfill a promise he made to a saint called Santa Bárbara, carries a huge cross on his back from one side of Salvador to another. It deals with themes such as religion, poverty, journalism, sensationalism, corruption and the loss of innocence. It kind of resumes a series of common events in Brazilians day to day life in a nutshell. Some scenes made me think of Aronofsky's Mother. I highly recommend it in case someone got interested in our Cinema.
oh please... this world cinema needs at least 20 parts.......
The night of counting the years (The Mummy) is my favorite film of all time! Glad it got a mention because there's nothing else like it. Made by painter and intellectual Shady Abd El-Salam, each frame in that movie is goddamn poetry! It's available on youtube if anyone is interested (albeit, in a low quality).
This is SUCH a great Crash Course series. Thanks for making it.
My favorite Crash Course series of the summer!
I think it would definitely be worth doing a second film history just on world cinema. I'm currently taking a course in South Korean Film and it is really interesting to learn how the industry developed despite division, military regime, censorship and Hollywood dominance. I'd love to get a more in depth look at global cinema :)
I love learning!
A Taste of Cherry is one of my all time favourite films!
Did I miss Mexico? There are some important movies, directors, actors, genres from Mexico ...
yeah like pan's labyrinth oh wait that was spain.
Crash course cinema is amazing and have watched the videos several times over. I have learned so much and had so much fun doing it. I do wish the independent film section was long with such great directors but still fantastic. Bravo! Bravo! Standing ovation and eagle punch
No mention of Nollywood?! I'm appalled, I demand a part three to remedy this error.
Oh and for anyone interested in learning a bit more about Iranian New Wave films I recommend Kyle Kallgreen's video essay on Jahar Panahi's This Is Not A Film
I know this episode was about cinema outside of Europe, but as a swede, I'm a little sad that Ingmar Bergman hasn't been mentioned yet in any episode. For those who think that they dont know who Bergman is, I'll just say this; he made that movie where a guy plays chess with the Grim Reaper. That's probably a scene that everyone in the world knows, even if they dont know anything about artsy old swedish cinema. XD
Bergman is one of the best directors of all time, I´m sure they have to speak of him in an episode soon, greetings from mexico!!
Thank you. I hope they will also mention Mexican golden age cinema!
We need a season two of this series where you guys actually go into depth with some of these film movements and waves. The first 12 episodes were great with how you guys went into such great and highly detailed and well organized videos on a single subject matter. But the last three episodes had to condense entire decades of film history into a single episode. While I can understand your motive for this, what with only having 16 episodes, there is so much more we can learn that didn't get any attention (Italian Neo-Realism) or just barely got glossed over (Pretty much all of Japan and Animation).
THANK you so much for this episode!
Screenwriter: How many times would you want to topple that eagle?
Craig: Yes
Great as always I´m a little disappointed because Mexican cinena didn´t show but I hope we could see a little of Luis Buñel or Jodorowsky next episode :D Congratulations
Waiting ever so patiently for that sweet, sweet animation episode.
i second this....a full episode on traditional animation and then a full episode on 3d animation
AwesomeVindicator I hope they mention Studio Ghibli and the impact their films have had on animation in general
And then 4 episodes on Anime
But Anime is so much better than any other animation in the world. I believe it has had a great cultural impact worldwide and is worthy of four full episodes in this series
Iranian cinema was what got me into watching foreign film.
Thought you were gonna mention more recent Brazilian movies and directors, such as City of God and Fernando Meirelles. Regardless, good job pronouncing the names, Craig. Not perfect, obviously, but much better than I was expecting.
This series is so addicting.
I was expecting Tunisian cinema to be among the mentioned, as i think it is the most experimental, avant gardiste and "free" in North Africa & the middle east. And it's amongst the oldest as it has been present since 1896, when the Lumière brothers began showing animated films in the streets of Tunis.
...it's "cinema d'auteur" kind of cinema.
But hey.. it's a nice video anyway !
I generally only hear and read about films from a handful of countries that are mostly European (and of coarse the U.S).. Thanks for dedicating several episodes to the cinema of the rest of the world. There's plenty out there that could inspire us cinephiles to do some exploring.
Majid Majidi's "The Willow Tree" is a remarkable Iranian film about a blind man. It moves slowly so you really feel with the main character.
Mexico and Argentina had enormous movies industries going back the 1910s through the early 1960s. The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema produced the Ranchero and Rumbera Musicals that we’re extremely popular throughout Latin America. Argentina film industry produced sophisticated light-hearted romantic comedies. As well as, period dramas, gaucho and religious theme epics. Many Mexican and Latin American actors came to Hollywood to work such as Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendariz, Katy Jurado, Fernando Lamas and Cantiflas to name a few.
I swear most of the comments are complaining about why X Y Z wasn't included. Like it's a ten minute video, how much do you think they can include?
that's true but they are even appreciating what was shown in the lesson.
I don't know too much about Brazilian cinema, but I love Brazilian television!!
I'm sad you didn't mention mexican movies from the 40s and 50s, they may not be very well known in Europe or the US, but they are very popular in all of Latin America, and the movies and the actors are still part of the popular culture to this day, everyone knows what happened to Torito, everyone knows what "Cantinflear" is
Thank you for the enlightening video! I knew there was world cinema but I had no idea of the depth!
I was so certain you'd spend a bit more time examining the cool and crazy world of Nigerian film making. I gotta say, I'm a bit disappointed.
If/when we loop back around to doing more film history, I'd like to do a whole episode on Nollywood.
- Nick J.
That is awesome to hear
i'd be super flippin down for a film history 2
count me in for that one as well!
I am disappointed that he didn't spend MUCH more time talking about film making in 92 other countries either. Why isn't this video 17 hours long????
No who killed captain alex and ugandan cinema?
The being destroyer of worlds best movie ever.
Dansy I see your a man of culture
This film, in my opinion, the best movie of the entire universe. And my contury make "Dünyayı Kurtaran adam"
I was under the impression that Mexico had the largest film industry in the world during WW2
Those dings when you point out the country on a map sound just like notification dings so you definitely got my attention lol
Turkish cinema is worth mentioning. Nuri Bilge Ceylan's films were big hits at Cannes Film Festivals.
I love this series don't get me wrong, but I would have rather if each of these regions of the world would have gotten their episodes. Now I'm fascinated to know about the film industry of these countries and he just brushed over a lot of information. I still love it I just wished we could have gone deeper, rather than just bare bones of information.
The attempt to say brazilian names is hilarious, though it's a full delight to be recognized and mentioned.
Another great video. But also I'd like to hear about russian and especially soviet film industry. It has an amount of significant films imo.
Great course, Love it and keep up the good work. Best wishes from Iran.
Can you please make a video on the present war between Spielberg Nolan vs Netflix. Are the Cinema Halls suffering because of Netflix?
it would had been interesting to heard about Ecuador's Touche Film's Studio because it's the biggest RUclips based sketch and movie company. It controls EnchufeTV Wich has almost 15 million subscribers and has produced some movies.
Cool video!
Geoffrey Winn Your opinion is denied
Mostly probable do to the fact that I'm from a US I am always happily surprise when I see films from other countries be them romantic comedies from France and Mexico to Horror movies like Under The Shadow from Iran and Juan of the Dead from Cube. There's something nice to see these movies that are somewhat different but at the same time relatable on some level that entertainment can touch.
Yeah, South America? The biggest film producer, distributor and innovator by far in Latin America is Mexico. So skipping Mexico in this episode is very weird. The narrator should've said that he was going to concentrate on "Latin America" instead of "South America" so he would be able to talk about Mexico's enormous film industry.
And México?
I ❤️ this channel but I can't believe you brushed over Nigerian cinema like that!
... Just a quick mention of Argentina. I'm disappointed :c We have two Oscar winning movies and others got nominated several times.
Also no Mexican cinema. I would say that one is also pretty relevant.
This pretty much. As a chilean Argentina is always the first country that comes to mind when I think "Latin American Cinema".
I'm surprised Majid Majidi wasn't mentioned when talking about Iranian cinema.
No love for argentina either? They make some of the most wonderful cinema of the southern cone
Nothing about Wakaliwood?
There probably going to make a whole episode about them
I hope so
Roses are red
Violets are blue
EVERYONE IN UGANDA KNOWS KUNG-FU!!!!
action packed movie!
Serious question: What's with the dead animal behind the Senegalese film-maker at 4:17? I am guessing it's an elephant? I am not getting why it is there.
Glad Iranian film was covered, but no Alejandro Jodorowsky?
Considering the fact that Nigeria has the 3rd largest movie industry in the world currently. I'd imagine it would have gotten a bit more airtime
,Hey you didn't do Oceania, NZ and Oz are pretty massive powerhouses in modern cinema and are quite different to US stuff
You must comment about "Paradise Now" next time. Fits the theme. (think that's the correct title. If not excuse me.)
International film history is so cool!!!:')))
Was the glossing-over of Nollywood's importance and the conspicuous absence of Jafar Panahi intentional?
i was expecting for at leat "The white balloon" of Jafar Panahi... sad they don´t talk about all his great films
Nice series but you totally forgot about the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in this episode.
8:49 - elliptical? Did I mishear that? What does it mean in this context? (The subtitles say elliptical too...)
Despite being Cuban, I had little to no knowledge about Cuban cinema
*edit:* Ah it makes sense now. I was born in the 90s, the same decade Cuban cinema declined
You never mentioned Touki Bouki.
Again with the eagle punching!
Craig i keep thinking ill run into you at the HEB in Austin but I never have :(
What about ?
I need some help.. I am creating a powerpoint on the history of movies and it is going to be just a summary. You made so many videos the history of movies. Which one would you recommend for me to further my research? @Crashcourse
I noticed you kept calling directors and actors from Africa and Latin America "indigenous". What makes them "indigenous" and not directors from America, France, or Italy?
Crash Course Mexican Film History pleaseeeeee
I thought that Nasser died in 1952. It's been a few years since my high school history class when we learned about modern Egypt.
Getúlio Vargas is written with an acute accent (´), not with a grave one.
So the last one is experimental and documentaries - Dang, I thought it was going to be animations :(
PLEASE return for a season 2
I died at 0:10. Combining DC and Marvel superheroes is FORBIDDEN as they are owned by two different companies.
Uhm, I am kind of pissed Mexican cinema isn't here
Maybe production has declined recently, yeah, but the Golden Era of the 30s to the 70s was massive
You skipped Mexican cinema, a huge industry before the 1950s and a crucial cultural influence for all of Latin America.
Nothing about Thailand or Philippines?
yeiiiii south america, finally. For me is funny because of the accents and deep for everything else
also the history of egyptian cinema looks amazing (i love omar shariff)
"Who Killed Captain Alex?" is the greatest movie ever made... in Uganda.
FYI Cannes is pronounced "can." Likes "yes we can." There's another town in Northern France, Caen, pronounced more like "cahn."
What about MEXICO!?
Veterinary please
I was worried that the eagle wasn't going to get hit today. Normal service has resumed.
I would just like to point out that cuba has a literacy rate of 99% so it is not predominately illiterate.
he should've mentioned the masterpiece that is who killed captain alex
briefly mentionned Nigeria and its star system, but no mention of Nollywood, nor any of their movies :(
I never stopped to think that any countries in Africa were making movies. This was a wake up call as to how Eurocentric I am. Of course they do!! Why wouldn't they??!
GingahNinjah be more woke! It's 2017!
Check out Nollywood movies
they have more cellphones than food and water
Check out Wakaliewood. it's poor but fantastic!
Check out Yeelen maybe the best African film ever made
Favorite episode so far! So many interesting anti colonial film movements
Will you talk more about contemporary world cinema?
I didn't understand if this episode focused exclusively in the cinema novo/new cinema age or if it is suppose to talk about those regions' cinemas as a whole.
(I ask that because, as a brazilian, I feel you skipped the most important cinema movement my country has ever had, with movies like city of god and tropa de elite; both of which got more public and critical acclaim than anything glauber rocha and his movement ever made)
Barren live's story is a book
This video made me wonder: Why is it that I, as a central European person, know more about the media industries of the Americas, Asia and Australia, than I know about those from Africa, even though Africa is so close and I even got relatives in Gambia?
I mean, obviously racism/xenophobia play probably some role in this, but I'd really like to see _someone_ (wink wink) do an analysis of the historical, political and what not reasons behind this. After all, one of the best ways to get rid of a problem is to properly understanding what causes the problem.
Because they have no money and you need money both to produce films and to advertise them. As for Asian cinema most of what you know will be from Japan and South Korea which are both incredibly rich countries. Chinese films don't usually get much exposure in the west and often a film you think is Chinese might actually be from a richer place like Taiwan, Shanghai or Hong Kong (that's where Wong Kar Wai is from and makes his films for instance, Zhimou is actually Chinese and it shows in the huge difference between their movies).
I think it's kind of the same with Latin American. If you remove Mexico from the equation, there's probably not too much famous stuff left. I've never even heard from a film from like half of the countries. Brazil has a pretty big industry though and a few films that are reasonably well known but not necessarily more than a handful (and I do mean handful literally, 5).
tobi2731 I know quite a few Chinese movies, and not just American co-productions. As for South Korea, there is comics (manwhas), music, games and also of course movies (hooray for Oldboy and co.). Also mmo's I guess.
As for Latin America, that is probably very specific to my interests, but there are quite a few metal bands I know (i.e. Six Magics from Chile and Sepultura from Brazil).
Oh, I was only talking about movies but you talked about all media in the original post. I would assume music is cheaper to make and distribute overall, so I guess with music Latin America could be doing considerably better than with movies. I've never heard of any Latin American Metal bands :D - though I have listened to a few Latin American albums (all progressive rock and I assume also rather special interest, although Alturas de Machu Picchu by Los Jaivas should have a rather broad appeal if people would in fact listen to it).
Just out of curiosity which Chinese films do you know?
Well, I am a huge fan of Chinese art movies, such as House of Flying Daggers and Hero, which have been mentioned in the video. I've also seen Jet Li's Fearless, several old Jackie Chan movies back when I was a kid (yes, also the ones produced in his home land), then there was the relatively new fantasy movie with the CG monsters, I forgot the name tho ... I really liked Musa, but that one was a South Korean/ Chinese co-production, but mainly made in Korea, so I am not sure that one counts. Oh yeah, and of course I saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Physical distance is really a non issue when it comes to entertainment nowadays, I am a Brazilian living in the US and most of the TV I watch is British and Japanese. Even Hollywood is 2,5000 miles (aprx. 4,000 km) from where I live.
Another thing is that because for instance American movies have dominated for so long there is far less to do with localization, because people from all over the world have grown up on American movies they can relate to and understand the tropes and themes of American movies very easily. I was raised 6,000 miles from Burbank yet I still grew up watching Disney movies.
Next weeks thumbnail is going to be an eyeball with a thin cloud in front of it ;)
YES, CHILE!