| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations (black and white), map |
| Contents |
List of figures, charts and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction: The soft power of film -- 1. Soft power and cinema: a methodological Reflection and some Chinese inflections / Song Hwee Lim -- 2. Building BRICS: soft power and audio-visual Relations in transnational context / Stephanie Dennison -- 3. The global animation market: opportunities for developing countries / Alessandra Meleiro -- 4. (Masha and) the bear diplomacy: soft power as world-building and Russian non-governmental agency / Vlad Strukov -- 5. The limits of Hollywood as an instrument of Chinese public diplomacy and soft power / Chris Homewood -- 6. The Second World War, Soviet sports and furious space walks: soft power and nation branding in the Putin 2.0 era / Stephen M. Norris -- 7. Popular geo-politics, strategic narratives and soft power in Viking (2016) and Guardians (2017) / Robert A. Saunders -- 8. The South African soft power narrative, cinema and participatory video / Paul Cooke -- 9. New myths for an old nation: Bollywood, soft power and Hindu nationalism / Rachel Dwyer -- 10. Soft power and national cinema: James Bond, ̀Great' Britain and Brexit / Andrew Higson -- Index |
| Summary |
Explores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 25, 2021) |
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Print version record; online resource viewed February 21, 2022 |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Political aspects
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Power (Social sciences)
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International relations.
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Motion pictures and transnationalism.
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international relations.
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International relations.
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Motion pictures and transnationalism.
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects.
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Power (Social sciences)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dennison, Stephanie, editor.
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Dwyer, Rachel, editor.
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| ISBN |
1474456294 |
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9781474456296 |
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