The Cinema of Small Nations / / Mette Hjort, Duncan Petrie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Hjort, Mette,; Petrie, Duncan,
• MitwirkendeR: Abbas, Ackbar,; Fernando, Jeremy,; Hjort, Mette,; Iordanova, Dina,; Jørholt, Eva,; Kam Tan, See,; López, Ana M.,; Martin, Florence,; McLoone, Martin,; Murray, Jonathan,; Norớfjörớ, Björn,; Petrie, Duncan,; Udden, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Within cinema studies there has emerged a significant body of scholarship on the idea of 'National Cinema' but there has been a tendency to focus on the major national cinemas. Less developed within this field is the analysis of what we might term minor or small national cinemas, despite the increasing significance of these small entities with the international domain of moving image production, distribution and consumption. The Cinema of Small Nations is the first major analysis of small national cinemas, comprising twelve case studies of small national - and sub national - cinemas from around the world, including Ireland, Denmark, Iceland, Scotland, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and New Zealand. Written by an array of distinguished and emerging scholars, each of the case studies provides a detailed analysis of the particular cinema in question, with an emphasis on the last decade, considering both institutional and textual issues relevant to the national dimension of each cinema. While each chapter contains an in-depth analysis of the particular cinema in question, the book as a whole provides the basis for a broader and more properly comparative understanding of small or minor national cinemas, particularly with regard to structural constraints and possibilities, the impact of globalization and internationalisation, and the role played by economic and cultural factors in small-nation contexts. Key FeaturesThe first major study of a range of small national cinemasDetailed and informative studies of particular small national cinemas from around the globeAn implicit comparative element that reveals major similarities and differences across the case studiesA strong line up of international contributors including a number of major internationally recognised experts in the fieldWritten in an accessible style to appeal to students, academics and the general reader alike.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Europe -- 1. Denmark -- 2. Iceland -- 3. Ireland -- 4. Scotland -- 5. Bulgaria -- Part Two. Asia and Oceania -- 6. Hong Kong -- 7. Singapore -- 8. Taiwan -- 9. New Zealand -- Part Three. The Americans and Africa -- 10. Cuba -- 11. Burkina Faso -- 12. Tunisia -- Notes on Contributors -- Index