Required Reading Dissanayake, Wimal. (2004). “Introduction: Nationhood, History and Cinema Reflections on The Asian Scene ”, in Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema , edited by Wimal Dissanayake, Indiana University Press.ppix-xxviii [ note: thorough and incisive survey of ‘national cinema’ as a critical concept in film studies, you don’t want to miss it ] Higson, Andrew. (2006). “The Limiting Imagination of National Cinema”, Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader , edited by Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden, Routledge, p15-25 Reference Reading [for MA and more intensive studies] Anderson, Benedict. (1983). “ Introduction ”, Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . Revised Edition. First published by Verso.