simona_patrizi – Tafter Journal

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

What is soft power if anything but Hollywood, MTV, and Mcdonalds?

Reflections on the political and economic relevance of “soft power” also understood as the level of attractiveness that a country is able to build on the basis of its cultural fruitions. Thus, “soft power” is not only considered in terms…

Creating Culture

The undervalued of potential of the peripathetic feature of festivals. A look at the FISahara Film Festival

In relation to the practice of deterritorilisaton, The FISahara film festival, coming to its 6th edition, is one of the most atypical activist film festivals, which takes place in a refugee camp in the middle of the Algerian desert, where…

After

Where do we belong? Festivals conquer the urban texture

This reflection comes to my mind when looking at the social and cultural current phenomenon such as the recent proliferation of film festivals around the world. I consider this phenomenon as an expression of the changing nature of the audience…