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Addresses the complex relationship between cinema and national identity, showing that the nationality of a cinema production company, and the films that it's made, have not always been seen as pertinent. Charts the developments of national film industries and the idea of a nation state in countries as diverse as Japan, Russiaand Italy.
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Popular cinema has mostly been approached from a 'cult' perspective, that analyses or simply celebrates its textual and 'transgressive' qualities. In recent years a new generation of film scholars has began to champion the study of popular genres but the question as to why these films may be worthy of study today - 'what can they offer us now?' - is rarely asked. Capital and popular cinema answers this question by responding to the need for a more solid historiographic approach. The book situates 'low' film genres in their economic and culturally-specific contexts (a period of unstable...