Week 2★Apr 24th REVISITING THE NATIONAL WITHIN THE EAST ASIAN CONTEXT

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.