Early Cinema and the "National"

Essays on "how motion pictures in the first two decades of the 20th century constructed 'communities of nationality' . . . recommended." —Choice
While many studies have been written on national cinemas, Early Cinema and the "National" is the first anthology to focus on the concept of national film culture from a wide methodological spectrum of interests, including not only visual and narrative forms, but also international geopolitics, exhibition and marketing practices, and pressing linkag...