Theorising National Cinema

This book addresses the knotty and complex relationship between cinema and national identity, showing that the nationality of a cinema production company, and the films that it's made, have not always been seen as pertinent. This volume begins by reviewing and rethinking the concept of national cinema in an age of globalisation.

Valentina Vitali is Lecturer in Comparative Film and Media Studies and Paul Willemen is Professor of Film Studies at University of Ulster, Coleraine.

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen

1

(16)

Part I Theories

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

17

(12)

Philip Rosen

The National Revisited

29

(15)

Paul Willemen

Reconceptualising National Cinema/s

44

(17)

Stephen Crofts

Part II Histories

Italian Cinema and History

61

(11)

Maria Wyke

Russia: The Cinema of Anti-modernity and Backward Progress

72

(16)

Mikhail Iampolski

National Cinema in Ireland

88

(12)

Martin McLoone

British Cinema as National Cinema

100

(14)

John Hill

Ozu and the Nation

114

(15)

Kathe Geist

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

129

(9)

Mika Ko

Taiwan New Cinema, or a Global Nativism?

138

(10)

Kuan-Hsing Chen

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

148

(10)

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

158

(14)

David A. Cook

National and Postnational French Cinema

172

(14)

Martine Danan

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

186

(16)

Kim Soyoung

The Hidden Conscience of Estimated Palestine

202

(7)

Elia Suleiman

Part III Crossroads

Early Cinema and Modernity in Latin America

209

(17)

Ana M. Lopez

The Quest for/Obsession with the National in Arabic Cinema

226

(28)

Sabry Hafez

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

254

(8)

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

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

262

(12)

Valentina Vitali

On the National in African Cinema/s: A Conversation

274

(19)

John Akomfrah

Spaces of Identity: Communications Technologies and the Reconfiguration of Europe

293

(11)

David Morley

Kevin Robins

Bibliography

304

(18)

Paul Willemen

Valentina Vitali

Index

322

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