Questions for Higson, "The Limiting Imagination of National Cinema:"

1.  What is the difference between considering the concept of national cinema from a theoretical perspective and considering it from the perspective of state policy?

2.  How do considerations of the regional/local and the transnational impinge upon the concept of national cinema?

Questions for Hayward, "Framing National Cinema"

1.  What does Hayward mean when she conceptualizes Hollywood's hegemony "as a form of para-nationalism"? (6 pages from the end; third paragraph in the section "Towards a framing of national cinemas").

2.Explain the distinction and the relationships among the concept of nation, national culture, and nationalist discourses.

Questions for Willemen, "The National Revisited"

1.  On page 36 Willemen says:  'The issue of national cinema is then primarily a question of address, rather than a matter of the filmmaker's citizenship or even of the production finance's country or origin."  Explain what means by "address" in this context.

2.  Explain the Bakhtinian concept of "creative understanding" outlined by Willemen.  How does it help us to position ourselves in relation to foreign cultures?