Cinema Industry

Since three hundred years ago two phenomena has merged into the western societies changing, substantially, the life of the human being. The first one was the Modernization that gathered the basic enlightenment's principles, which were widely broadened through the world thankful to the European’s migration. The second one is the process of Globalization, which currently merges to societies through many means. One of those means is the cinema industry. It is a paradox that the Globalization is thought as a recent phenomenon, which flourished roughly thirty years ago, and at the same time it uses films as means of expansion. However, what sorts of things are being expanded through the films by Globalization? Or, what sorts of things are being expanded through the globalization by films?

Whether the Modernization multiplied mainly European’s customs, globalization is exporting American values. Beside internet, free trade or television, films usually show the American way of life as a stereotype of what is good or bad, gorgeous or ugly, politically correct or incorrect, and so on. Whether the Modernization gained control on reasoning, Globalization is controlling the body overseas. Marilyn Monroe inspires which is considered as beautiful in a woman, Marlon Brando, Brad Pitt among others encourage man behavior, and so on.

Nonetheless, Globalization does not have only one track of course. The stream has shown how overseas patterns have influence throughout any culture around the world. Regarded to Cinema Industry, it means that other industries rather than Hollywood have the chance to be successful. Furthermore, Bollywood, the largest Cinema Industry in the world, began to be acknowledged last Academy Awards in Los Angeles. The same is happening to Nollywood, the biggest African Cinema Industry. However, it is too soon to state any conclusion, we just have to wait, so that the world could realize how those industries interact one to each other. Actually, we have to wait a little more in order to understand the way Globalization works.

Brief matter of Mann’s photographs

If you have to chose between simplicity and theoretical issues, which will be your choice? Sally Mann has both concepts in her work as a photographer. First, pictures about landscape and bones represent the simplicity of things that could be seen commonly but the Mann’s work adds meaning that has to be discovered. In the other hand, photos of child nudity have more complexity. It is an irony how Mann’s photos of child nudity give simplicity to a very heavy concept of our conservatives societies.

Music is a daughter of her own history: Muddy Waters and Bob Dylan.

Music has been considerated as the universal language, a sort of human expression that could be understood by every human being. As an expression of human being, music could be seen as a train full of ideas that deliver feelings, thoughts, concepts even ideologies into society. Likewise, those ideas, feelings and concepts are picked up from somewhere. That place is common for all of us. That place is the history of each society. Muddy Waters and Bob Dylan were the train’s operators that delivered us a piece of our history. This short essay tries to show how music and musician are daughters and sons of their own moment.

In many cultures music has been responsible for the transmission of knowledge. Without paper some cultures had channels to preserve traditional knowledge and unforgettable social experiences. Furthermore, music has shown social tension and struggles as well as political fact, religious issues and economical problems. Recently, the music of the latest 60’s presented a lot of that trend. Bob Dylan is a good example of how history expresses itself into song, rhythms and dancing. The twenty century was a revolutionary one, especially the 60’s, when many social struggles flourished at the same time. Dylan served to the history and their concerns when he was singing about a blowin’ in the wind. Frequently he asked about “how many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man? The message was clear as well as the struggle for civil right since 50’s. They all –in the 60’s- were looking for an answer that Bob Dylan remarked as a “blowin’ in the wind”.

Plethoric of that kind of examples, music has many artists that could be presented in this essay in the same way as Dylan. In fact, even before Dylan, there is a legend of blues music that did the same. Muddy Waters could reflect feelings in his music that corresponded to his historical moment. He was an instrument that played notes of black consciousness of the moment. By that time, African American people had just begun to dream about a free life. That was the time of new aspirations and hope of the new American citizens for equality. Unfortunately the promise of the liberty failed in front of their eyes, thus like the train left him with all his “love in vain”. His music reflected the hope of a new era, but the train left them in the station, and all that they had wished in a free world went into the train.

Waters and Dylan are just two examples of good musicians that express in their songs many aspects of life and society. The last two paragraphs were written to show how music and musicians have a close relationship with the history, even whether they do not know. Even, if they do not want to. Music is a daughter of the history.

Madonna has kissed everybody!

Women, Latino, African-American have been kissed by Madonna on her shows. It could be seen as lack of morality or as strategy to sell her musical production. People can agree or disagree that behavior, but in the bottom of the debate we can agree that at least the diversity as it is shown in Madonnas videos is something to deal with. Fortunately, several videos about sexuality has raised from the darkness to question people about liberty and their limits. And at the same time Madonna's videos have shown and strengthened the open possibility to build a multicultural society without prejudge of race. Even it means inter ethnic relationships, which is the way to build a society without social ghettos. Mixed people are so nice!!!

Films I like to see

There is so many films that have created a good impresion on me. Perhaps "La vida es bella" is one of the most important to me. It is the story that is developed within the second world war, and shows how a little boy lived those moments. The best aspect of the movie is that the boy is always in front of the german misery against the jewish (actually the boy is jewish) but he never takes real notice of the war becouse his father is always showing him that the reality is just a game that they have to win... Just rent it in Bluckbuster video and wacth it!!!

Introduction

I am afrocolombian citizen with a bachelor degree in history. Right now I am living in Boston area near to Forest Hill station, the neightborhood is called Roslindale. I come from the Pacific Coast of Colombia, from a small town called Quibdo. In my country I use to be a professor at Universidad Jorge tadeo Lozano, Iwas teaching there african political affaires. Nowdays I would like to improve my skills as a social researcher, therefore I want to study a PhD. program in Public Policy. Whether you want to read more about myself you can visit http://www.giancarlosalazarcaicedo.blogspot.com/ There you will find some paper that I wrote some years ago. Also you can see pics from the place I belong.