Theorising National Cinema

Name: Theorising National Cinema
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ISBN: 9781844571208

ISBN-10: 1844571203

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Edition: 2006

Authors: Valentina Vitali, Paul Willemen, Paul Willemen

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Why do we think of clusters of films as a "national cinema"? Why has the relationship between the nation and film become so widely and uncritically accepted? Written by many leading scholars in the field,Theorizing National Cinemais a major contribution to work on national cinemas. It addresses the knotty and complex relationship between cinema and national identity, showing that the nationality of a cinema production company, and of the films it made, have not always been seen as pertinent. The volume reviews and rethinks the concept of national cinema in an age of globalization, and goes on to chart the parallel developments of national film industries and the idea of the nation state in…

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List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 1/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Valentina Vitali is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of East London. She is editor (with Paul Willemen) of Theorising National Cinema.



Notes on Contributors


Introduction




Theories



History, Textuality, Nation: Kracauer, Burch and Some Problems in the Study of National Cinemas




The National Revisited




Reconceptualising National Cinema/s




Histories



Italian Cinema and History




Russia: The Cinema of Anti-modernity and Backward Progress




National Cinema in Ireland




British Cinema as National Cinema




Ozu and the Nation




The Break-up of the National Body: Cosmetic Multiculturalism and the Films of Miike Takashi




Taiwan New Cinema, or a Global Nativism?




From National Cinema to Cinema and the National: Chinese-language Cinema and Hou Hsiao-hsien's 'Taiwan Trilogy'




'We're in the Money!' A Brief History of Market Power Concentration and Risk Aversion in the American Film Industry from the Edison Trust to the Rise of Transnational Media Conglomerates




National and Postnational French Cinema




From Cine-mania to Blockbusters and Trans-cinema: Reflections on Recent South Korean Cinema




The Hidden Conscience of Estimated Palestine




Crossroads



Early Cinema and Modernity in Latin America




The Quest for/Obsession with the National in Arabic Cinema




National/International/Transnational: The Concept of Trans-Asian Cinema and the Cultural Politics of Film Criticism




Not a Biography of the 'Indian Cinema': Historiography and the Question of National Cinema in India




On the National in African Cinema/s: A Conversation




Spaces of Identity: Communications Technologies and the Reconfiguration of Europe



Bibliography



Index