1. Nationalism has changed since the cold war because the globe just finished dealing with two world wars that were caused primarily by nationalism. The "imagined community" is what comes about when nationalism creates a nation that not only exists within geographical borders but exists in it's historical practices as well as the citizens visions of themselves. The new sense of nationalism is a good thing because it allows cultures to resist the influence of other cultures as opposed to the old sense of nationalism whose culture would be the one being forced.

2. -The continuous feeling of Exile and a need to return to the homelands
-To escape antisemitism and form a save haven
-The idea of modern nationalism which includes a feeling of self identification
It fits in with Andersons definition because Zionism was a movement to create not only national identity but also a geographical homeland.

3. Jewish identity and culture were expressed through diasporic experiences and the "men of letters" who were in charge of reviving the hebrew language and expressing their need for a homeland by creating symbolic texts of their culture (ie myths).

4. The assimilationists and the orthodox Jews were the other competing ideologies. Zionism had at its backbone the idea of the "new jew" that valued hard agricultural labor, a collective lifestyle as well as struggle with past hardships.

5. The films were made with government subsidies. Since these filmmakers were free from having to depend on the audience they were able to produce films that were more politically critical. In the 90s there was a movement towards personal, internal worlds that step away from the nationalist drama.

6. High culture began to shun nationalism while popular culture and nationalism became synonymous. The "art" films that won academy awards in America drew small crowds in Israel.