Neoliberalism and Global Cinema

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Subjectivities, Publics, and New Forms of Resistance

JYOTSNA KAPUR AND KEITH B. WAGNER

Hollywood and Global Dominance

1 “For a Better Deal, Harass Your Governor!”: Neoliberalism and Hollywood

TOBY MILLER AND RICHARD MAXWELL

2 A Legacy of Neoliberalism: Patterns in Media Conglomeration

EILEEN R. MEEHAN

3 Twenty-first Century Neoliberal Man

DEBORAH TUDOR

Latin America

4 Cuban Cinema: A Case of Accelerated Underdevelopment

MICHAEL CHANAN

5 Politics and Privatization in Peruvian Cinema: Grupo Chaski’s Aesthetics of Survival

SOPHIA A. MCCLENNEN

6 Form, Politics, and Culture: A Case Study of The Take, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, and Listen to Venezuela

MIKE WAYNE AND DEIRDRE O’NEILL

7 Market Socialism and Its Discontent: Jia Zhangke’s Cinematic Narrative of China’s Transition in the Age of Global Capital

XUDONG ZHANG

8 “Leitmotif”: State, Market, and Postsocialist Film Industry under Neoliberal Globalization

YING XIAO

9 From Exploitation to Playful Exploits: The Rise of Collectives and the Redefinition of Labor, Life, and Representation in Neoliberal Japan

SHARON HAYASHI

10 The Underdevelopment of Development: Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Bourgeois Individualism

JYOTSNA KAPUR

11 Fragments of Labor: Neoliberal Attitudes and Architectures in Contemporary South Korean Cinema

KEITH B. WAGNER

12 Mainlandization and Neoliberalism with Post-colonial and Chinese Characteristics: Challenges for the Hong Kong Film Industry

MIRANA M. SZETO AND YUN-CHUNG CHEN

13 Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism in Singaporean Cinema: A Case Study of Perth

JENNA NG

14 Gambling on Life and Death: Neoliberal Rationality and the Films of Jeffrey Jeturian

BLISS CUA LIM

Africa and Europe

15 Nollywood in Lagos, Lagos in Nollywood Films

JONATHAN HAYNES

16 French Cinema: Counter-Model, Cultural Exception, Resistances

MARTIN O’SHAUGHNESSY

Notes on Contributors