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Indian Entertainment Industry All Set to Explore the Chinese Markets
Posted by admin in Entertainment News, Literature on October 6, 2011
The commercial release of Bollywood film Lagaan was met with certain amount of opposition; however, few others have made its way to the Chinese markets sans any difficulty.
It may be hard to believe, but the fact is that the Indian movies are a huge hit even in the Chinese markets. And with World Trade Organization urging China to welcome entertainment exports from the United States, India too can look forward to cash in on this opportunity. In a recent development, WTO appellate court has struck to its earlier stand that China has not been too rigid in terms of foreign music, cinema, literature and theatre. The WTO dispute settlement body is suppose to arrive at a final decision on China within 30 days, on the other hand China has another 30 days left to reply on how it intends to respond to the ruling. If China decides to toe WTO line, then it would have to adopt a more flexible approach towards import of literature, film, music and other entertainment products. The maximum China can do is to bring into action the censor boards to restrict the imports. However the censor board can have a say only on the total imports, but it cannot stop the influx of foreign entertainment and literature from its markets.
Though WTO ruling was in reply to a US complaint, India too can look forward to gain maximum leverage out of it. Today, India’s entertainment and publishing industry is nowhere near United States. In fact, the revenue of Walt Disney Studios is twice as much as that of the entire film industry, so the prospect of exporting Indian entertainment products to China should be explored to the optimum. Indian diplomats and entertainment industry have been knocking at their doors for quite some time now. Today, at least a few Indian films have made its way into the Chinese markets; take for example, Lagaan. Though the commercial release of Lagaan was met with certain amount of opposition; however, few others have made its way to the Chinese markets sans any difficulty. The success of Indian films in China brings to the fore the untapped potential of large markets like China for Indian entertainment exports. Read the rest of this entry »
Romantic Movement in Literature – An Introductory Note
Posted by admin in Literature on October 6, 2011
The Romantic Movement in literature started at the end of the 18th century in Western Europe. It was a revolt against the Enlightenment of the preceding century and the focus was on rational and scientific thought.
The characteristics of Romantic literature involve emphasizing on passion, emotion, and the natural world. Nationalism was one of the crucial factors in the Romantic Movement, and as a result, many authors turned towards native mythologies and folk tales as their source material. They went back to aesthetics and tried to emphasized ethos of the medieval age.
The earliest examples of Romantic literature started in Germany and the most crucial and remarkable literary figure was Goethe. His novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), about a young and a sensitive artist was much popular throughout Europe. He used local folklore and myth as subjects for his poetry. He became an inspirational source for a sense of German nationalism in the decades prior to a unified Germany. After that, the French Revolution in the late 18th century brought about romantic ideals such as liberty, freedom, and national pride.
Throughout the 19th century, Romanticism dominated English literature and romantic poetry, in particular, became the most significant work of the period. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats are notable Romantic poets from Britain. Nature, religious fervor, emotional response to beauty, and Ancient Greek aesthetics, are some of the common themes in their work. Read the rest of this entry »