%0 Journal Article
%T Emerging film cultures: Spotlight on post
%A Doris Posch
%J International Journal of Cultural Studies
%@ 1460-356X
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1367877917704490
%X In the past decade, a new generation of filmmakers has committed to establishing a local film market via the film school, Cin¨¦ Institute, in Jacm¨¨l, Haiti. Film production in Haiti today, grounded in a virtually non-existent cinema historiography, is particularly challenged by the neocolonial politics following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Via lowest-budget productions, Haiti¡¯s filmmakers are not only contributing to new modes of translocal media production but are also attempting to create economically viable exhibition networks and subsequent distribution infrastructures on a transglobal scale. This analysis draws on the local prolificacy and global orientation of Haiti¡¯s emerging film cultures, and demonstrates that both aspects are influenced by and intervene in the broader contexts of geo-political debates in global cinema. Finally, this study considers the extent to which Haiti contributes to new configurations of film and media cultures in the Caribbean
%K Caribbean
%K emerging film cultures
%K global media
%K Haiti
%K informal film production
%K natural disaster
%K postcolonial
%K translocal
%K transnationalism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1367877917704490