Theorising national cinema. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen.
• Other Names: Vitali, Valentina; Willemen, Paul
• Contents: History, textuality, nation: Kracauer, Burch and some problems in the study of national cinema / Philip Rosen -- The national revisited / Paul Willemen -- Reconceptualising national cinema/s / Stephen Crofts -- Italian cinema and history / Maria Wyke -- Russia: the cinema of anti-modernity and backward progress / Mikhail Iampolski -- National cinema in Ireland / Martin McLoone -- British cinema as national cinema / John Hill -- Ozu and the nation / Kathe Geist -- The break-up of the national body: cosmetic multiculturalism and the films of Miike Takashi / Mika Ko -- Taiwan new cinema, or a global nativism? / Kuan-Hsing Chen -- From national cinema to cinema and the national: Chinese-language cinema and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 'Taiwan trilogy' / Chris Berry -- '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 / David A. Cook -- National and postnational French cinema / Martine Danan -- From cine-mania to blockbusters and trans-cinema: reflections on recent South Korean cinema / Kim Soyoung -- The hidden conscience of estimated Palestine / Elia Suleiman -- Early cinema and modernity in Latin America / Ana M. Lopez -- The quest for/obsession with the national in Arabic cinema / Sabry Hafez -- National/international/transnational: the concept of trans-Asian cinema and the cultural politics of film criticism / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- Not a biography of the 'Indian cinema': historiography and the question of national cinema in India / Valentina Vitali -- On the national in African cinema/s: a conversation / John Akomfrah -- Spaces of identity: communications technologies and the reconfiguration of Europe / David Morley and Kevin Robins.
• Publisher Details: London : British Film Institute
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Subjects: 791.43658; Motion pictures -- History; Nationalism in motion pictures; Motion picture industry; Nationalism; Nationalism in motion pictures; Motion picture industry; Motion pictures; Nationalism; Nationalbewusstsein; Filmtheorie; Films; Nationale identiteit; Filmindustrie; Film; History; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781839020834; 1839020830
• Related ISBNs: 9781844571192
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.