pes Cee reins eavbaceeial Se) the concept of national cinema in an age of Pe ee Cen Ly Ben eure en! Japan, South| Korea, Russia, France and Italy. ‘The issue of ft ‘national cinema’ for nation states Ce RR eed displaced peoples, is discussed in relation to Se ee eee ‘The contributors also consider the future of rational cinema In an age of transnational cultural flows, exploring Issues of national identity and Ce ed ea Theorising National Cinema also includes & Re ee sth ee kee Fee tke Car Media Studies and Paul Willemen is Professor of ee eee eosTheorising National Cinema Edited by Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen @ PublishingPN 1993.5 At TH? nese Fit published in 2006 by the BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE 21 Stephen Steet, London WIT 1LN ‘The British Film lsiute's purpose i © champion moving image care in alli ichness and diversity 2x08 he UK, for the benefit ofa wide sudience a posible, and to create and encourage debate Ineroduction and editorial arrangement © Valeatna Vital and Paul Willemen 2006 (Other chapters © individual authors 2006 Mack Swan tation: Gendbye Dragon bow Bu San (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2009), Homegreen ils courtesy of BF Sil, Posters snd Designs Printed in the UK by St Edmundsbury Pres, Hury St Edsnonds, Sulftk ingein-Publication Data this book is avaable fom the Bish Library Or-713 Dts Library Acaalogue recor ISBN 1-86457-120-3 (gb) ISBN 1-84457-119-x (bE) FEB 2: 2009 Contents "7 29 3 Reconceptuaising National Cinema/s Stephen Crofs “4 Part Il Histories 4 Telian Cinema and History Maria Wyke 61 5 n 6 National Cinema in Irland Marcin MeLoone 88 7 Baitsh Cinema as National Cinema Jobe Hill 100 8 Oruand the Nation Kathe 14 9 The Breakup of the National Body: Cosmetic Multiculturalism and the Fils of Miike Takashi Mika Ko 129 10. Taiwan New Cinema, or a Global Nativism? Kuan-Hsing Chen 138 41 From National Cinema to Cinema and the National: Chinese-language Cinema and Hou Hsizo-hsien's “Taiwan Trilogy’ (Chris Berry 148 12, ‘We're in the Money!" A Brief History of Market Power Concentration and Risk Aversion in the American Film industry from the Edison Trust to the Rise of ‘Transnational Media Conglomerates David A. Cook 158