Where Is National Cinema Today (and Do We Still Need It)?

MOTION picture industry; NATIONAL character in motion pictures; MOTION picture audiences; MOTION pictures & transnationalism; GROUP identity; MOTION picture history

'National cinema' is often questioned as a category, yet persists as a way of advertising national qualities, both culturally and economically. Although a founding concept in the writing of cinema history, it has recently been stigmatized as an equivalent of the national literatures promoted by nineteenth-century bourgeois elites, and also challenged by an emphasis on the transnational, yet can be demonstrated to have an empirical basis in audience studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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