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What could a film’s national identity be determined by?

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Financing, subject matter, personnel, audiences

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What things are discussed when studying national cinema?

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Community, language, politics, relationship with global, relationship with nation

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What is the most popular practice in determining the national identity?

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Financing

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What are two issues that the study of national cinema can illuminate?

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The means by which that nation imagines itself, the various means by which it resists Hollywood

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Define nation

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A collectivity based on a number of shared things, the most important of which are ancestry, language, and cultural heritage

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Define state

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An institutional structure charged with exercising authority within a definable and limited jurisdictional purview which is typically territorial in nature

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Define nation-state

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When the state matched up perfectly with the location, a single ethnic group, a single nation

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What is an “imagined community” and who is responsible for coining the term?

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Benedict Anderson; Anderson claims it is the state that produces a sense of coherence, and unity… the state depends on that sense of commonality, otherwise how could it convince people to pay taxes, fight, etc.

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What industry dominates ticket sales, where, and by how much?

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American films dominate foreign screens/ticket sales, American industry controls 60% of world market

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Why is national cinema a term rarely applied to American cinema?

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“Nation cinema” is part of how filmmakers carve out their own space in a non-Hollywood activity

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What are the options that national cinema can take?

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#1: compete with Hollywood by making genre films
#2: opt out of the commercial sector altogether
#3: create a commercial cinema that complements rather than competes with Hollywood
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What option do Canadian filmmakers usually choose?

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Option 2 & 3, however 1 has been taken before