Theorising National Cinema

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Theories -- 1. History,Textuality, Nation: Kracauer, Burch and Some Problems in the Study of National Cinemas -- 2. The National Revisited -- 3. Reconceptualising National Cinema/s -- Part II: Histories -- 4. Italian Cinema and History -- 5. Russia:The Cinema of Anti-modernity and Backward Progress -- 6. National Cinema in Ireland -- 7. British Cinema as National Cinema -- 8. Ozu and the Nation -- 9. The Break-up of the National Body: Cosmetic Multiculturalism and the Films of MiikeTakashi -- 10. Taiwan New Cinema, or a Global Nativism? -- 11. From National Cinema to Cinema and the National: Chinese-language Cinema and Hou Hsiao-hsien's 'TaiwanTrilogy' -- 12. 'We're in the Money!'A Brief History of Market Power Concentration and Risk Aversion in the American Film Industry from the EdisonTrust to the Rise of Transnational Media Conglomerates -- 13. National and Postnational French Cinema -- 14. From Cine-mania to Blockbusters andTrans-cinema: Reflections on Recent South Korean Cinema -- 15. The Hidden Conscience of Estimated Palestine -- Part III: Crossroads -- 16. Early Cinema and Modernity in Latin America -- 17. The Quest for/Obsession with the National in Arabic Cinema -- 18. National/International/Transnational: The Concept ofTrans-Asian Cinema and the Cultural Politics of Film Criticism -- 19. Not a Biography of the 'Indian Cinema': Historiography and the Question of National Cinema in India -- 20. On the National in African Cinema/s:A Conversation -- 21. Spaces of Identity: CommunicationsTechnologies and the Reconfiguration of Europe -- Bibliography -- Index.