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Film and nationalism

edited and with an introduction by Alan Williams

(Rutgers depth of field series)

Rutgers University Press, c2002

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-252) and index

Description and Table of Contents
Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780813530390

Description

From the medium's inception, films have defined and reinforced the core values and social structures of countries. They have also helped define - socially and culturally - what is to be considered "outside" the nation and what it is to be shunned. This text examines the ways in which cinema has been considered an arena of conflict and interaction between nations and nationhood. Each section of this volume explores a crucial aspect of the discussion. Is film an effective form of national propaganda? Are films losing the very notion of nationhood, in favour of a generalized "global" cinematographic culture? What is film's influence over "national character? In addition, the volume explores the cultural and economic interactions between developed and underdeveloped countries. How have third world nations defined themselves in relation to hegemonic first world cultures and how have their relations been changed through the dissemination of Western films? Throughout, Alan Williams chooses essays that enhance out understanding of how films help shape our sense of nationhood and self.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780813530406

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Today there is much debate over an increasingly "global economy." But commercial cinema has been, from the very beginnings of its existence, "globalized." From the mediums inception, films have defined and reinforced the core values and social structures of countries. They have also helped definesocially and culturallywhat is to be considered "outside" the nation and what it is to be shunned.Film and Nationalism examines the ways in which cinema has been considered an arena of conflict and interaction between nations and nationhood. Each section of this volume explores a crucial aspect of the discussion. Is film an effective form of national propaganda? Are films losing the very notion of nationhood, in favor of a generalized, "global" cinematographic culture? What is films influence over "national character"? In addition, the volume explores the cultural and economic interactions between developed and underdeveloped countries. How have third world nations defined themselves in relation to hegemonic first world cultures, and how have their relations been changed through the dissemination of Western films? Throughout, Alan Williams chooses essays that enhance our understanding of how films help shape our sense of nationhood and self.

Table of Contents

Reconceptualizing national cinema/s / Stephen Crofts The concept of national cinema / Andrew Higson Movie analyses in the study of culture / Martha Wolfenstein Australian cinema as a national cinema / Tom O'Regan The testament of Dr. Goebbels / Eric Rentschler The "funny war" of the sexes in French cinema / Noël Burch and Geneviève Sellier The legacy of T.E. Lawrence : the forward policy of western film critics in the Far East / Stephen Teo Are all Latins from Manhattan? Hollywood, ethnography, and cultural colonialism / Ana M. López Multinational pest control : does American cinema still exist? / Jonathan Rosenbaum A neo-Marxist approach : world film trade and global culture flows / Janet Staiger

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  • NCID
    BA56445876
  • ISBN
    • 0813530393
    • 0813530407
  • LCCN
    2001041685
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New Brunswick, N.J.
  • Pages/Volumes
    vi, 261 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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