CIN 3110 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Ford Focus, City, London

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: CIN 3110
• Professor: james brooke-smith

Document Summary

Nation: bounded spatial territory or, laws and legal systems, delimiting a national space. National film industry: benedict anderson: nations formed by creating imagined communities, benedict anderson: spread of wildly diffused popular print culture. Interesting from perspective of media with written word and oral speech, but also important in sense of national identity people orienting themselves from the same sense of national community. Imagined communities are produced by popular media, and the new popular medium is the cinema. 1926: 95%: 1927: government legislation to protect british films, introduces quotas for the amount of british films on british screens. Needs at least 7. 5% of output to be british-made. 1936 it was 20%: protectionist measure of national industry, 1920s-30s: quota quickies: produced in order to meet quotas without care or attention. It tries to stimulate production, but the quality is low: britain is based on the literary, also very theatrical, so film isn"t deemed prestigious.