Tagged national cinema

For those of us with an interest in Australian film, the idea of Asian Australian cinema might evoke a short list of names and titles, all from the very recent past. Examples might include Clara Law’s SBSi-prod...

“The question of national cinema has been ultimately one of aesthetics and taste.”  –Charles Acland (1) “It is something of a challenge...to think about English Canadian cinema as something other than a faile...

An introductory essay on the post-colonial emergence of a regional cinema often overlooked in contemporary film history.

In The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity, UK lecturer Linnie Blake argues for the horror genre’s unique ability to confront the consequences of traumatic national events ...

Film scholarship is undergoing a paradigm shift. In the past decade or so, a significant body of work has emerged, which reflects the opinion that the nation-state – once the undisputed primary unit of economic...