Talk:World cinema

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Contents 1 Removed text 2 Proposed merge with Foreign film 3 Box needs updating 4 Definition of cinema

[edit] Removed text

I pulled the following text as such a statement requires evidence:

"In World Cinema the top three most popular industries are Hollywood, based in the United States, Bollywood, based in India, and Nollywood, based in Nigeria."

What is meant by "most popular"? Highest box office takings? Most productive (number of films)? Or most popular with international audiences? I don't know how it's quantified, and perhaps it just needs to be rephrased. Gram 21:46, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merge with Foreign film

This article and Foreign film seem very similar, enough to warrant a merge. But I'm not sure which article title should be used. Madder 18:55, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

World cinema. "Foreign film" is ambiguous -- foreign opposed to what? – Alensha  ^talk 18:56, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

If it is to be merged, I vote World Cinema should be used and foreign film become a redirect. Gram 15:36, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

"World Cinema" should only be accepted if it includes the cinema from all the countries that procduced cinema and not only the "non-English language countries", because that label only should be accepted if the non-English language countries were not part of our planet.

Well, it does indeed include UK, USA, Australia etc in the lists of continental cinema links, and the header of the article does mention that the phrase "World Cinema" can be take to mean all countries other than one's own. You may wish to clarify this further, or make more of a point of subjectivity in the opening paragraph of the article. Gram 15:02, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Box needs updating

The box at the bottom needs to have the Cinema of Paraguay link added to it, as does the Latin American box (I myself don't know how to do this).

Sdrawkcab 15:31, 9 January 2007 (UTC)sdrawkcab

Someone's done it, but for your reference you would need to edit Template:Worldcinema. Madder 20:52, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I've also amended Template:Latin American Cinema to include it. Gram 16:49, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Definition of cinema

I copy here from The American Heritage Dictionary (Second College Edition): cinema n. 1. A motion picture. 2. A motion picture theater. 3. a. Motion pictures collectively b. The motion picture industry. 4. The art of making motion pictures. Not a word about foreign films. The article is tagged for sources since October. In the external link "Masters of Cinema" (for one) the top item is Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind. Could someone of the writers of the article show us where their definition of cinema as "foreign films" came from? Hoverfish Talk 15:19, 4 April 2007 (UTC)