ABSTRACT
Chapter 9 summarizes the effects of globalization on city films. Migration, ghettoization, digitalization, or postmodernism increase and intensify during processes of globalization. Transnational processes of funding, distribution, and consumption of films also transform the relationship of cities and cinema. Digitalization and electronic platforms lead to faster and cheaper distribution. The viewing experience has become a mobile activity independent of urban environments with movie houses. Multinational cooperation leads to co-productions of films, which in turn shapes narratives that depict characters that cross national borders or that take place in multiple locations in different nations. Global art filmmakers circulate their films at international festivals, while filmmakers in the West appropriate vernacular genres of global cinema, such as Bollywood, to direct globally circulating blockbusters.
