The gulf art scene as a vehicle for nation building Prepare a literature review about how art & culture have and are being used as instruments of building nationhood/cultural appropriation/art as property/capitalism/rentier states/authoritarianism with a focus on the gulf countries. Draw historical and geographic comparisons. But obviously a focus on 20th and 21st century.
Explain, a national cinema ‘participate[s] in establishing nationhood as a distinct, familiar sense of belonging which is shared by people from different social and regional backgrounds’ (S. Street). Do you agree?
British cinema A national cinema ‘participate[s] in establishing nationhood as a distinct, familiar sense of belonging which is shared by people from different social and regional backgrounds’ (S. Street). Do you agree? Discuss with examples from British cinema.