Film International - Volume 1, Issue 4, 2003

Many of us have encountered their logotypes at the cinema. But who the hollywood majors, and how do the maintain their global dominance in film distribution? Janet Wasko has taken a close look at the not always clean business practices of the big film and media corporations.

Marketing has always been central to the film industry all over the worls, now more than ever. Here, Ranjani Mazumdar takes us through the short artistic and economic history of film posters in India.

In the essay on Hollywood's globas dominance from a Canadian perspective, Manjunath Pendakur shows us the spectacular differencies between the conditions under which the film industries of the two neighboring countries produce and distribute film.

To protect studio copyrights in the marketplace and to maintain good public relations is supposed to be two prinicipal aspects of the contemporary MPAA directive. But what what happens when these directives are at odds with each other? Jon Lewis has a strange story to tell about local consorship.

Pay-TV is the fastest growing source of film finance worldwide, which increased at a rate of 23 per cent in the last five years of the 1990s. In his essay, John McMurria maps this new market using the case of Canal Plus and Vivendi Universal to tell us about the future of film production.

In 3 (25 May 2003) Christer Mattsson reviewed two books on Torben Grodal's film theory, one a tribite to him be other scholars: Lennard Hjberg och Peter Schepelern (eds) Film Style and Story A Tribute to Torben Grodal, the other a new book by professor Grodal Himself: Fimoplevelse enindfring i audiovisuel teori og analyse (Film experience An Introduction to Audiovisual Theory and Analysis). Here is a rebuttal to Mattsson from Grodal, followed by a short debate between the two.

The Complete Monterey Pop Festival USA 1968

DVD USA 2003

Alice in Wonderland United Kingdom 1966

The Year of the Sex Olympics United Kingdom 1968

DVD United Kingdom 2003

DVD United Kingdom 2003

Ladies of the Bois of Boulogne Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne France 1945

DVD USA 2003

The King of Comedy USA 1983

DVD USA 2002

Tokyo Olympiad Tokyo Orimpikku Japan 1965

DVD USA 2002

The White Sheik Lo sceicco bianco Italy 1952

DVD USA 2003

Barry Keith Grant (ed) John Ford's Stagecoach (Cambridge Film Handbooks) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003

Annette Insdorf Indelible Shadows. Film and the Holocaust (3^rd ed) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003

Norma Barzman The Red and the Blacklist New York: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books 2003

Xavier Mendik (ed) Shocking Cinema of the Seventies Hereford: Noir Publishing 2002

Xavier Mendik & Steven Jay Schneider (eds) Underground USA: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon London and New York: Wallflower Press 2002

The wrong films won, the right films were ignored and the worst film was actually rather good, at least much better than the boring ones. Jan Lumholdt reports from the most frowned-upon Cannes competition in the always too short memory of man.