António Lopes Ribeiro e Elias KAzan- Há espaço para todos...
The world is ganging up on Hollywood.
In a slap in the face to the U.S., member states of U.N. cultural body UNESCO have voted to protect their film businesses against creeping globalization -- in other words, Hollywood.
The vote, a Franco-Canadian initiative, was passed by 191 states: Only Israel and the U.S, which recently rejoined UNESCO after a 19-year absence, opposed it. Four countries abstained, including Australia.
Move could spark quotas on film and music imports, particularly in countries like France, where, in the first nine months of 2005, U.S. pics took 57.4% of the market share while Gallic films took 37.4%.
The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions gives member states the right to act against what they see as encroachment on their cultural identity.
A cultura fica excepção na globalização. Não é o mercado que manda mas sim o Estado. Os interesses das indústrias cinematográficas nacionais ficam mais protegidos, dirão os sub-marxistas sofisticados que comandam o "pensamento único". Mas , se fosse só isto não seria melhor transformar essas indústrias em sucursais das americanas? Ao contrário dos sub-marxistas, penso que a cultura nasce do que experimentamos como telúrico. Em resumo; vale a pena aturar um Manuel de Oliveira para que um dia possa surgir mais um António Lopes Ribeiro...
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