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The geopolitical imaginary of cinema studies. Notes on transnational film theory: decentered subjectivity, decentered capitalism / Kathleen Newman -- On the plurality of cinematic transnationalism / Mette Hjort -- Tracking "global media" in the outposts of globalization / Bhaskar Sarkar -- Time zones and jetlag: the flows and phases of world cinema / Dudley Andrew -- Vector, flow, zone: towards a history of cinematic translation / Natasa Durovicova -- Cinema as transnational exchange. Chinese cinema and transnational film studies / Yingjin Zhang -- National cinema abroad: the new international division of cultural labor, from production to viewing / Toby Miller -- Aural identity, genealogies of sound technologies, and Hispanic transnationality on screen / Marvin D'Lugo -- How movies move (between Hong Kong and Bulawayo, between screen and stage-- ) / Lesley Stern -- The new paradoxes of black Africa's cinemas / Olivier Barlet -- The transnational other: street kids in contemporary Brazilian cinema / Joao Luiz Vieira -- Comparative perspectives. Fantasy in action / Paul Willemen -- Vernacular modernism: tracking cinema on a global scale / Miriam Hansen -- Globalization and hybridization / Fredric Jameson -- From playtime to the world: the expansion and depletion of space within global economies / Jonathan Rosenbaum.