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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...

... of Hollywood, sensational genres staged cinematic images of regional modernity that contested Rio and São Paulo’s privileged place in a modernizing Brazil. film distribution adventure films local film regional cinema fan magazines ...

... 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 de Janeiro and São Paulo, encouraging European immigration and implementing reforms that pushed...

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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 demonstrates that studying queer Hong Kong requires an alternative framework of “queer globalities.” Conceptually, queer globalities illustrate the convergent dynamics of global queer rights discourses, local geopolitics, and so-called pink capitalism within the global modernities...

..., 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...

... This chapter explores Hong Kong cinema as a rich site for queer Sinophone theory, positioning Hong Kong as a geographic locale through the visual mapping of global intimacies and connections. It expands on Shu-mei Shih’s insight into the Sinophone as a nonrelational approach toward Chineseness...

.... For all the attention lavished on the meticulously compiled soundtracks, and their afterlife as exemplars of musical curation, however, Wong’s rebranding only works because of the effectiveness and brilliance with which the music is recast in the films themselves. In a move redolent of the silent-film era...

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...Foreword Contemporary African Screen Worlds addresses an Africa full of new kinds and uses of screen media, encompassing interfaces among film platforms, filmmakers, performers, and audiences. Different kinds of work are required to get at these relationships, but the central project...

...Engendering Screen Representation, Spectatorship, and Curation This chapter examines two video films by the Ugandan filmmaker Dilman Dila in order to explore them as sites of knowledge production for our understanding of genre films and their representations of Black womanhood. Focusing...