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National Cinema: An Anachronistic Delirium?
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The authors argue that National Cinema has lasting significance as a concept and needs to be retooled as an analytic paradigm for cultural self-making/becoming, which involves institutional, economic, and discursive negotiations/struggles to determine what has to be done to afford cinematic cultures critical to socio-cultural life in a national society.Abstract:
The notion of National Cinema has been under fierce attack. It was once a dominant paradigm during the heyday of the nation-state but now is a marker of obsolescence. In this essay I first critique those who forsake the concept of National Cinema by examining the following questions: Is National Cinema a conceptual and institutional by-product of Hollywood domination? How is National Cinema correlated with cultural identity and uniqueness? Should National Cinema be supplanted by a fashionable neologism, transnational cinema? I argue that National Cinema has lasting significance as a concept and needs to be retooled as an analytic paradigm for cultural self-making/becoming, which involves institutional, economic, and discursive negotiations/struggles to determine what has to be done to afford cinematic cultures critical to socio-cultural life in a national society.read more
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time.
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Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.
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Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
TL;DR: Althusser's "For Marx" (1965) and "Reading Capital" (1968) had an enormous influence on the New Left of the 1960s and continues to influence modern Marxist scholarship as mentioned in this paper.
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The nation and its fragments : colonial and postcolonial histories
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