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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Picturing Space
Introduction
1 Location, “Location”: On the Plausibility of Place Substitution
2 Insurgent Place as Visual Space: Location Shots and Rival Geographies of 1857 Lucknow
Part II. Prints in Motion
Introduction
3 Robespierre Has Been Lost: D. W. Griffith’s Movies and the Soviet Twenties
4 An Afterlife for Junk Prints: Serials and Other “Classics” in Late-1920s Tehran
5 Translations and Transportation: Toward a Transnational History of the Intertitle
Part III. Impertinent Appropriations
Introduction
6 From Misemono to Zigomar: A Discursive History of Early Japanese Cinema
7 The Crisscrossed Stare: Protest and Propaganda in China’s Not-So-Silent Era
8 Around the World in Eighty Minutes: Douglas Fairbanks and the Indian Stunt Film
Part IV. Cosmopolitan Sexualities and Female Stars
Introduction
9 National Soul / Cosmopolitan Skin: Swedish Cinema at a Crossroads
10 Queer Crossings: Greta Garbo, National Identity, and Gender Deviance
11 Cosmopolitan Women: Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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