Hi Anabel,
I don't know about other studies in the Caribbean area in this subject in particular. But there are another networks in the cinema field can bring to you Links for other research and the possibility of funds to keeping work on this. From the academic there are a person that manage the Cinergia Project.
Ask to Maria Lourdes Cortes. [log in to unmask]
2224-2312
Del Instituto Cultural de México
There are good experience about local cinema in Rep. Dominicana, Guatemala. And now Honduras making films. Cuba has a great influence on many of the work of independent film makers.
If you need to make a big data about I m in Panama working on Creative Class and linked to the Urban Observatory in the University Santa Maria la Antigua and have a link to the world of cinema, for future can be use your model for big data in the region.
if you want can post this on the web www.blogdesociologia.com
Keep in touch.
Ramsés López
About.me/ramses_lopez
+507 6612-2410
> El 18/08/2014, a las 09:43, Anabel Fernandez Santana <[log in to unmask]> escribió:
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> Dear All:
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> My name is Anabel Fernandez. I'm a Cuban sociologist researching on
> Caribbean Cinema. I just presented my master degree thesis entitled "The
> image behind the screen, Film Consumption in the Nederland Antilles",
> focussed on studying the shaping of film consumption practices in the island
> of Aruba, with the specific objective of deciphering how people react to
> indigenous and regional cinema after decades of consuming almost exclusively
> American films. My view is that there is an important change of perspective
> when watch a film that refers to a distant reality and tells you a story
> from which you can take a certain distance and when you are placed in front
> of a film that references your own reality. The uses are not the same and
> the subject's position changes. This is a situation that one can find
> reproduced in virtually every island in the Caribbean, since regional cinema
> is still emerging; this is an issue deeply intermixed with important
> cultural and identity related issues in the whole Caribbean, and has been so
> far poorly studied. What I did was a study case, conducted in the Island of
> Aruba, an includes a description of the exhibition system, a
> characterization of the consumption practices and an exploration of the
> possible factors that intervene in the shaping of those practices. I had the
> opportunity of surveying a large sample of youngsters (1700+ aged 12 to 17)
> and also interviewed many of them, as well as cultural authorities and
> exhibitors in the Island. Now the study is finished I would like to share
> the results.
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> I would like to consult list members if they are aware of any related
> studies that I could consult to compare data, and if you know about
> publications that could be interested in publishing an article on the
> aforementioned topic.
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> Thank you all for your time, I really appreciate your comments.
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> Warmest,
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> Anabel
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