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- Title
Co-production as co-option: Repackaging the national for the global market in Rio, I Love You and The 33.
- Authors
O'Brien, Daniel
- Abstract
This article explores two Latin American-US co-productions, Rio, Eu Te Amo (Rio, I Love You) (2014) and Los 33 (The 33) (2015). I examine the extent to which these films, otherwise disparate in form and content, provide a space for addressing issues of national identity and history within a context of international filmmaking practices. Simultaneously, the films present universalized and homogenized facets that subsume rather than promote their cultural specificity in the interests of wider accessibility and marketability. This attribute is refracted in, and arguably a product of, the multinational financing, casts and crews, and local distribution through major US companies. I also look at the films' reception, global and local, with regard to their being perceived as distinctly, and distinctively 'Brazilian' or 'Chilean'.
- Subjects
COPRODUCTION (Motion pictures, television, etc.); NATIONALISM in motion pictures; NATIONAL character in motion pictures; HISTORY in motion pictures; ANTHOLOGY films; LATIN American films; RIO, I Love You (Film); 33, The (Film)
- Publication
New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 2018, Vol 16, Issue 2, p157
- ISSN
1474-2756
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/ncin.16.2.157_1