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.
2.Explain the distinction and the relationships among the concept of nation, national culture, and nationalist discourses.
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1. Hollywood is a dominant cinema that has influence, reach, and power throughout the world. So, when Hayward describes Hollywood’s hegemony as “paranationalism”, it’s describing the different facets of Hollywood’s culture that “colonizes” the different cinemas of the world. Whether it be the image of both the males and females in Hollywood movies, clothing trends, genres, and other things, it all adds up to the “nationalism” of the Hollywood hegemony.
2. Nation is an ideological construction that seeks to forge a link between a self-defined cultural group and the state, creating abstract or imagined communities that create the “nation.” It can also be a social relation of knowledge and power. Nationalist discourses are nationalism that engenders the notion of a “nation.” The discourses also bridge the gap between “nation” and “state” to make them seem one in the same. Culture is a notion, objects made to represent a nation, to function as evidence of a nation’s distinctiveness. Thus, nation being the origin of a sort of distinctive society, the way it thrives and sustains itself by attaching its population to this idea of the “nation.” Culture allows for tangible and emotional connections to one’s “nation,” while discourses are methods of mental persuasion to keep one’s “national spirit.”
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