Theorising National Cinema

Introduction Valentina Vitali / Paul Willemen.- Part I: Theories.- History, Textuality, Nation: Kracauer, Burch, and Some Problems in the Study of National Cinema (Phil Rosen).- The National Revisited (Paul Willemen).- Reconceptualizing National Cinema/s (Stephen Crofts).- Part II: Histories.- Italian Cinema and History (Maria Wyke).- Russia: The Cinema of Anti-Modernity and Backward Progress (Mikhail Lampolski).- 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: the Films of Takashi Miike (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 and Risk-Aversion in the American Film Industry from the Edison Trust to the Rise of Transnational Media Conglomerates (David A. Cook).- National and Post-National French Cinema (Martine Danan).- From Cine-mania to Blockbusters and Trans-Cinema: Reflections on Recent South Korean Cinema (Soyoung Kim).- The Hidden Conscience of Estimated Palestine (Elia Suleiman).- Part III: Crossroads.- 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: Communication Technologies and the Reconfiguration of Europe (David Morley / Kevin Robins).- Bibliographic Resource (Paul Willemen / Valentina Vitali).