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National Cinemas


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Reflecting growing interest in cinema as a cultural institution, the National Cinemas series brings together the most recent developments in cultural studies and film history to deepen our understanding of film directors and movements by placing them within the context of national cinematic production and global culture and exploring the traditions and cultural values expressed within each. Each book provides students with a thorough and accessible introduction to the national cinemas they discuss.

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Brazilian National Cinema

Brazilian National Cinema

1st Edition

By Lisa Shaw, Stephanie Dennison
September 25, 2007

Brazilian cinema is one of the most influential national cinemas in Latin America and this wide-ranging study traces the evolution of Brazilian film from the silent era to the present day, including detailed studies of more recent international box-office hits, such as Central Station (1998) and ...

South African National Cinema

South African National Cinema

1st Edition

By Jacqueline Maingard
January 31, 2008

South African National Cinema examines how cinema in South Africa represents national identities, particularly with regard to race. This significant and unique contribution establishes interrelationships between South African cinema and key points in South Africa’s history, showing how cinema ...

German National Cinema

German National Cinema

2nd Edition

By Sabine Hake, Sabine Hake
December 25, 2007

German National Cinema is the first comprehensive history of German film from its origins to the present. In this new edition, Sabine Hake discusses film-making in economic, political, social, and cultural terms, and considers the contribution of Germany's most popular films to ...

Spanish National Cinema

Spanish National Cinema

1st Edition

By Nuria Triana-Toribio
January 03, 2003

This study examines the discourses of nationalism as they intersected or clashed with Spanish film production from its inception to the present. While the book addresses the discourses around filmmakers such as Almodóvar and Medem, whose work has achieved international recognition, Spanish National...

Canadian National Cinema

Canadian National Cinema

1st Edition

By Chris Gittings
December 29, 2001

Canadian National Cinema explores the idea of the nation across Canada's film history, from early films of colonisation and white settlement such as The Wheatfields of Canada and Back to God's Country, to recent films like Nô, LE Confessional Mon Oncle Antoine, Grey Fox, Highway 61, ...

British National Cinema

British National Cinema

2nd Edition

By Sarah Street, Sarah Street
October 02, 2008

The first substantial overview of the British film industry with emphasis on its genres, stars, and socioeconomic context, British National Cinema by Sarah Street is an important title in Routledge's new National Cinemas series. British National Cinema synthesizes years of scholarship on British ...

Italian National Cinema

Italian National Cinema

1st Edition

By Pierre Sorlin
October 31, 1996

From such films as La Dolce Vita and Bicycle Thieves to Cinema Paradiso and Dear Diary, Italian cinema has provided striking images of Italy as a nation and a people. In the first comprehensive study of Italian cinema from 1886-1996, Pierre Sorlin explores the changing relationship of Italian ...

Mexican National Cinema

Mexican National Cinema

1st Edition

By Andrea Noble
December 12, 2005

From Amores Perros and Y Tu Mama Tambien, this books delves into the development of Mexican cinema from the intense cultural nationalism of the Mexican Revolution, through the 'Golden Age' of the 1930s and 1940s and the 'nuevo cine' of the 1960s, to the renaissance in Mexican cinema in the 1990s. ...

French National Cinema

French National Cinema

2nd Edition

By Susan Hayward
July 26, 2005

This revised and updated version of a successful and established text, French National Cinema offers a thorough and much-needed historical overview of French cinema at a time when it continues to grow in popularity with films such as Amelie and Belleville Rendez-vous. Brought wholly up to date...

Australian National Cinema

Australian National Cinema

1st Edition

By Tom O'Regan
October 23, 1996

Tom O'Regan's book is the first of its kind on Australian post-war cinema. It takes as its starting point Bazin's question 'What is cinema?'and asks what the construct of a 'national' cinema means. It looks at the broader concept from a different angle, taking film beyond the confines of 'art' into...

Nordic National Cinemas

Nordic National Cinemas

1st Edition

Edited By Gunnar Iverson, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, Tytti Soila
February 20, 1998

Nordic National Cinemas explores the film histories and cultures of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The authors examine each country's domestic film production, social and political context and domestic audiences from the beginning of this century to the twentieth century.The authors ...

Chinese National Cinema

Chinese National Cinema

1st Edition

By Yingjin Zhang
July 15, 2004

This introduction to Chinese national cinema covers three 'Chinas': mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Historical and comparative perspectives bring out the parallel developments in these three Chinas, while critical analysis explores thematic and stylistic changes over time. As well as ...

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