Research on the Balance of Local Cultural Imprint and Western Centralism in Films in the Background of Intercultural Communication: A Case Analysis of a World Cinema Baraka

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10.2991/hssmee-18.2018.70How to use a DOI?

Keywords

world cinemas; western centralism; globalization; local culture; Baraka.

Abstract

In the process of cultural globalisation, world cinema has emerged as a new genre of film. It generally attempts to break the limitations of today’s film market and expand the horizon of audiences. World cinemas prefer to place the objective expression in the background of a non-European and Hollywood content, show the civilization and sceneries in other regions in the world, especially developing countries. However, due to the influence of the cooperation of global film factories on the production and distribution all over the world, these films not only fail to escape from the limitations of Western centralism but also find it difficult to display local ideology in their expression. This essay will analyse a classic world cinema Baraka to illustrate how world cinemas expressing their local characteristics through a Western filter.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Wenjia Tang
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BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences, Management and Education Engineering (HSSMEE 2018)
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