Film and Nationalism
Title | Film and Nationalism PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Larson Williams |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780813530406 |
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.
Cinema and Nation
Title | Cinema and Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Mette Hjort |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2005-08-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134618840 |
Cinema and Nation considers the ways in which film production and reception are shaped by ideas of national belonging and examines the implications of globalisation for the concept of national cinema.
Nationalism and the Cinema in France
Title | Nationalism and the Cinema in France PDF eBook |
Author | Hugo Frey |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2014-07-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1782383662 |
It is often taken for granted that French cinema is intimately connected to the nation’s sense of identity and self-confidence. But what do we really know about that relationship? What are the nuances, insider codes, and hidden history of the alignment between cinema and nationalism? Hugo Frey suggests that the concepts of the ‘political myth’ and ‘the film event’ are the essential theoretical reference points for unlocking film history. Nationalism and the Cinema in France offers new arguments regarding those connections in the French case, examining national elitism, neo-colonialism, and other exclusionary discourses, as well as discussing for the first time the subculture of cinema around the extreme right Front National. Key works from directors such as Michel Audiard, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Marcel Pagnol, Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati, François Truffaut, and others provide a rich body of evidence.
Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema
Title | Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | James Harvey |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2018-06-21 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 3319736671 |
This book investigates screen representations of 21st century nationalism—arguably the most urgent and apparent phenomenon in the Western world today. The chapters explore recurrent thematic and stylistic features of 21st century western European cinema, and analyse the ways in which film responds to contemporary developments of mounting tensions and increasing hostilities to difference. The collection blends incisive sociological and historical engagement with close textual analysis of many types of screen media, including popular cinema, art-house productions, low-budget independent work, documentary and video installation. Identifying motifs of nationhood and indigeneity throughout, the contributors of this volume present important perspectives and a timely cultural response to the contemporary moment of nationalism.
Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema
Title | Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Wimal Dissanayake |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1994-10-22 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780253208958 |
" . . . an important collective work for communication practitioners, students, and scholars who want to have a deeper understanding of film making in Asia and of the promotion of nationalism through communication." —Media Asia " . . . a momentous contribution to the study of colonialism and postcoloniality in Asia . . . " —The Journal of Asian Studies "This is an excellent model for studies in how the popular, art, and experimental cinemas function in the consideration of nationhood as a configuration of symbols. . . . This anthology provides an interesting discussion by offering a theoretical framework from which to examine the complex topics of nation, state, identity formation, and collective history in the realm of cinema. It becomes an even more effective tool by playing itself out within a diverse Asian context." —Afterimage Essays examine the representation of the interlocking discourses of nationhood and history in Asian cinema, dealing with film traditions in Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, and Australia.
Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas
Title | Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Dever |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2003-07-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780791457634 |
Explores issues of representation and rebellion in Mexican and Mexican American cinema.
Japanese Cinema and Otherness
Title | Japanese Cinema and Otherness PDF eBook |
Author | Mika Ko |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135238863 |
Over the last 20 years, ethnic minority groups have been increasingly featured in Japanese Films. However, the way these groups are presented has not been a subject of investigation. This study examines the representation of so-called Others – foreigners, ethnic minorities, and Okinawans – in Japanese cinema. By combining textual and contextual analysis, this book analyses the narrative and visual style of films of contemporary Japanese cinema in relation to their social and historical context of production and reception. Mika Ko considers the ways in which ‘multicultural’ sentiments have emerged in contemporary Japanese cinema. In this respect, Japanese films may be seen not simply to have ‘reflected’ more general trends within Japanese society but to have played an active role in constructing and communicating different versions of multiculturalism. In particular, the book is concerned with how representations of ‘otherness’ in contemporary Japanese cinema may be identified as reinforcing or subverting dominant discourses of ‘Japaneseness’. the author book also illuminates the ways in which Japanese films have engaged in the dramatisation and elaboration of ideas and attitudes surrounding contemporary Japanese nationalism and multiculturalism. By locating contemporary Japanese cinema in a social and political context, Japanese Cinema and Otherness makes an original contribution to scholarship on Japanese film study but also to bridging the gap between Japanese studies and film studies.