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Politicised Cinema: Post-War Film, Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO

Politicised Cinema: Post-War Film, Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO

Huttunen, Miia

Hardcover

Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

Film StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1032120002
ISBN13: 9781032120003
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 31 2022
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Politicised Cinema demonstrates how taking a collection of seemingly apolitical films and using them as an instrument for serving explicit political aims can be used as a force for good.

Through an analysis of Orient: A Survey of Films Produced in Countries of Arab and Asian Culture, a film catalogue published by UNESCO and the BFI in 1959 to promote intercultural understanding between the East and the West, this book argues for the importance of studying the ways the interpretation of films can be guided to serve a specific political agenda, even when the films themselves were originally produced with very different aims in mind. The author focuses on how the catalogue positions culture and its cinematic representations as a marker of difference between the Eastern and Western worlds, and shows that even major cultural conflicts such as the Cold War and the decolonisation process can be reframed in service of UNESCO's cultural diplomatic agenda. The book explores the ways in which the catalogue of Eastern films deemed suitable for Western audiences became a weapon to fight against prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry in a politicised battle over dismantling the proclaimed link between difference and conflict.

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