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... In Rio de Janeiro in the latter half of the 1910s, a craze for imported serial films fostered new practices of film consumption, novel conceptions of cinema’s defining characteristics, and fresh ambitions for local film production. The popularity of serial films and their tie-in novelizations...

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... on the local ground of Shanghai, the essay argues that each film figures the practice of the economics of the urban in critical and normative ways ideologically appropriate for their times. Shanghai studies Peng Xiaolian Zheng Zhunli Crows and Sparrows , Once Upon a Time in Shanghai ...

... during the war. The criticism focused on one particular image, of a local Japanese cane cutter looking up at a passing navy ship. The story of that image, dating back to a first documentary film made by a team supervised by John Ford during the war, serves as a reminder that history, especially memorial...

... This chapter looks at how networks of women’s cinema in Asia constitute an important counter-public sphere in an era of media globalization. Young women directors are becoming visible within disparate Asian national cinemas, and their films’ themes and structures suggest a regional approach...

... to tell Hong Kongers' SARS stories. The chapter focuses on these films' Cantophone aesthetics, their inside references to local history and culture, with emphasis on Cantonese sounds and vernaculars, as one nonwestern provincializing of global pandemic discourse. The chapter coda discusses some shifts...

..., this chapter underscores the exhibition as a turning point that backgrounded questions of identity so as to foreground an inclusive and ecumenical approach to shared conditions of globality that are everywhere inflected by granular differentiations of locality. documentary film installation...

... The spectacles of real-life crime that unfolded across illustrated journalism, popular theater, and early film in Brazil’s two fastest-growing cities at the turn of the twentieth century, framed real-life acts of violence as thrilling signs of local modernity. As elites sought to transform Rio...

... a local obstacle, which is passing and passable. The latter distinction is parsed through an analysis of two recent projects: (1) engineer Hans Monderman’s innovative approach to traffic management, which harnesses the obstruction of traffic, an enduring condition (as distinct from the obstacle of any...

... intersections of class, language, religion, and locality. By doing so, I explore the moments of failure to define the desires and intimacies among women which escape stable meanings and identities. Furthermore, in imagining queer lives and elsewheres in Pakistan, this essay offers a queer mode of telling...

... in dialogue with imported cultural forms and reflected locally specific understandings of the ontology of the moving image, the introduction traces shifting relationships between cinema and print culture, from the highly intermedial visual and entertainment cultures of the first decade of the twentieth...

... There is an unrecognized connection between filmmakers' yearning to overcome Philippine cinema's “audience problem” and archiving advocates' hopes of hailing a public that roots for audiovisual preservation. Structural problems with distribution and exhibition mean that locally produced...