1st Edition
Politicised Cinema Post-War Film, Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO
By Miia Huttunen
Copyright 2022
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction
1. UNESCO’s One World Paradox and the Cultural Diplomacy Conundrum
2. Debating Power over the Orient
3. Shady Borders: Opening a Space for Cultural Diplomacy
4. The Three Easts
5. Cultural Diplomatic Strategies: Japan and UNESCO
6. Five Kurosawas and the Incomprehensible East
Conclusion
Biography
Miia Huttunen is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
