The Cinema of Small Nations

In a recent article entitled ‘An Atlas of World Cinema’, Dudley Andrew concludes his discussion in the following way:

Andrew's concluding remarks reference the recent emergence in film studies of a new critical vocabulary - ‘world cinema’, ‘transnational cinema’, ‘regional cinema’ - while his discussion of world cinema more generally responds to, and thus reflects, the need for fully developed conceptual models that will lend analytic precision to the terms in question. Particularly relevant in the present context is the way in which Andrew's reference to nations and to their inevitable persistence in film culture also acknowledges, at least implicitly, that innovative ways of understanding national elements must be part of the critical shift that is currently occurring in film studies.