Open AccessSino-brazilian cinematic connections
Author(s) -
Tatu-Ilari Laukkanen
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
idéias
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2179-5525
pISSN - 0104-7876
DOI - 10.20396/ideias.v9i2.8655601
Subject(s) - movie theater , poetics , perspective (graphical) , globalization , capital (architecture) , immigration , politics , political science , media studies , economic geography , economy , political economy , sociology , history , geography , art , art history , visual arts , literature , economics , poetry , law
This article positions Lik-wai’s 2008 Sino-Brazilian film Plastic City as a precursor of BRICS cinema and, through a close textual analysis demonstrates how it critically engages Sino-Brazilian relations, flows of capital, commodities, immigration and culture, as well as environmental issues in a matrix of globalization from an emerging economy perspective. Plastic City is intertextually linked to Chinese, Brazilian and world cinema, illuminating its connections to past and present film movements and how it mobilizes their poetics and politics.