The sociological scope of 'national cinema' / Philip Schlesinger -- Frank Capra meets John Doe : anti-politics in American national identity / Charles Lindholm, John A. Hall -- Images of the nation : cinema, art and national identity / Anthony Smith -- The limiting imagination of national cinema / Andrew Higson -- National cinema : a theoretical assessment / Ian Jarvie -- Framing national cinemas / Susan Hayward -- Themes of nation / Mette Hjort -- Cinematic nation-building : Eisenstein's The old and the new / Noel̈ Carroll, Sally Banes -- The nation vanishes : European co-productions and popular genre formulae in the 1950s and 1960s / Tim Bergfelder -- The new Scottish cinema / Duncan Petrie -- Indonesia : the movie / Martin Roberts -- Notes on Polish cinema, nationalism and Wajda's Holy week / Paul Coates -- Deep nation : the national question and Turkish cinema culture / Kevin Robins, Asu Aksoy -- Fragmenting the nation : images of terrorism in Indian popular cinema / Sumita S. Chakravarty -- Mimetic nationhood : ethnography and the national / Scott MacKenzie -- From new German cinema to the post-wall cinema of consensus / Eric Rentschler -- Contemporary cinema : between cultural globalisation and national interpretation / Ulf Hedetoft -- Birthing nations / Jane M. Gaines.

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