| 1.1 |
Los Angeles feature-film production days: Totals and percentage changes from previous year. |
| 1.2 |
Paramount Studio’s location map of California, 1927. |
| 1.3 |
Neoliberal Hollywood. |
| 1.4 |
Neoliberal Hollywood. |
| 6.1 |
Religion and the popular classes. |
| 6.2 |
The institutionalized religion of the middle class. |
| 6.3 |
A simple dialectical image. |
| 6.4 |
Liberty reduced to the freedom to shop. |
| 6.5 |
The dead haunting consumer capitalism. |
| 8.1/8.4 |
DVD covers and film posters of Grief over the Yellow River. |
| 8.5/8.6 |
DVD cover and film poster of Titanic, directed by James Cameron, 1997. |
| 8.7/8.8 |
The crosscuttings between Rockman and the Tibetan protagonist Geshang in Red River Valley. |
| 10.1 |
The mismatched choreographic moves of Emosanal Atyachar. |
| 11.1 |
The proletariat Jing confronts his chaebol boss Dong-jin with a box cutter, demanding an explanation for his termination. |
| 11.2 |
Learning he will not be re-hired, Jing maims himself with the box cutter as a symbolic and sadistic gesture of his own despondent state. |
| 11.3 |
Ryu labors arduously on the factory floor to support himself and his ailing sister. |
| 11.4 |
The victim of downsizing right before the firm’s financial collapse, management pitilessly sacks Ryu, taking the neoliberal stance: management first. |
| 12.1 |
Top ten box-office films in the China Market (1995–2009). |
| 12.2 |
Top ten films in the Hong Kong market (1995–2009). |
| 14.1 |
In Pila Balde [Fetch a Pail of Water, dir. Jeffrey Jeturian, 1999], both the film’s title and early expository scenes overtly sexualize the act of fetching water from a communal water pump. |
| 14.2/14.3 |
The spatialization of class in Pila Balde is introduced through two complimentary establishing shots. |
| 14.4 |
Sweethearts Nonoy (left) and Gina (right) are the enterprising albeit impovershed protagonits of Phila Balde. 289 |
| 14.5 |
Allusions to electoral fraud in Kubrador [The Bet Collector, dir. Jeffrey Jeturian, 2006]. |
| 14.6 |
In Kubrador, the exhortation on the front of a bet collector’s shirt, “ituloy ang laban” (“on with the fight”) alludes to electoral fraud in the last presidential race of 2004, when current president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was declared victorious. |
| 14.7 |
The tabloid headline below a jueteng bet-book in Kubrador refers to the failed attempt to impeach President Arroyo for vote tampering in the 2004 presidential elections. |
| 14.8 |
When Amy is arrested for collecting illegal gambling bets in Kubrador, the head of the precinct places his own “secret bet” with her. |
| 14.9 |
In Kubrador penultimate scene, Amy’s shoulder is grazed by a gunshot as the spectral figure of her son looks on, unseen, behind her. |