FST-3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Magic Lantern, Zoetrope, Eadweard Muybridge
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Andrew higson, the concept of national cinema (1989) Nation depends on an imaginary coherence of national culture and identity (38). Compare and contrast one cinema with another (usually hollywood, u. s. ) Inwardly relate cinema to a nation"s other cultures and economies. Key concept here: the nation as imagined community (44). A process of inclusion and exclusion is enacted, a process whereby one thing is centralized, at the same time necessarily marginalizing another, A process wherein the interest of one particular social group are represented as in the collective or national interest, producing what [benedict] anderson has called the. Cinema constructs and reproduces an image of nation . Often bound up in dominant ideology and suppression of difference. Peter harcourt, speculations on canadian cinema (2004). National film board of canada (nfb), est. Canadian fiction cinema emerges in the 1960s + 70s. Invisible cinema of canada traditionally exhibits hollywood films. Canadian films closer to art cinema than hollywood.
