Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Film Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1020E
• Professor: Gregg Redner

Document Summary

National cinema: is a term used in film theory and film criticism to describe the films associated with a specific country. Like other film theory or film criticism terms, the term. National cinema is hard to define, and its meaning is debated by film scholars and critics. One way of looking at a nation is as a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own. Another way of understanding an action is as a an imagined community. The idea of an imagined community is a concept coined by benedict anderson who suggested that a nation is a community socially constructed which is to say imagination by the people who perceive themselves as part of that group. Definitions of national cinema are determined institutionally and culturally. They vary according to country and history and political status.