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Theorising national cinema
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Theorising national cinema

Author: Valentina Vitali; Paul Willemen
Publisher: London : British Film Institute, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Valentina Vitali; Paul Willemen
ISBN: 184457119X 9781844571192 1844571203 9781844571208
OCLC Number: 63703219
Description: x, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen.

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