Aesthetics of world cinema on global and peripheral streaming platforms: the arise of worldly cinema

Abstract

Beyond the global platforms, it is also important to perceive a specific type of more artisanal and less mainstream world cinema, which occupies primarily niche and not global streaming platforms, giving visibility to a peripheral cinema of the periphery itself, which are often not seen in their own countries, which could be called, in counterpoint, of a worldly cinema. Based on the analysis of some films distributed on niche streaming platforms in Brazil, this paper intends to discuss the constitution of peripheral films in world cinema as opposed to a globalized world cinema distributed by global streaming platforms. How are world cinema aesthetics, more global or peripheral, organized into more global or niche streaming platforms?