The Modern City in World Cinema

Edited by Jaimey Fisher and Sheldon Lu

Introduction: The Modern City in World Cinema
Jaimey Fisher and Sheldon Lu

Restoring and Reimagining Socialist-Built Cities: Wang Xiaoshuai’s “Third Front Trilogy”
Xuesong Shao

The City in Flux: Toward an Urban Topology of Hong Kong Cinema
Vivian P. Y. Lee

The City in Early Alternative Arab Cinema
Nadia Yaqub

Paris Centrifuge: Cléo de 5 à 7 in Black and White, or: The Ills of Colonialism
Jeff Fort

Disputations from the Damaged City: Spike Lee’s If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise (2010) and the Taking Place of Civil Society in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Jaimey Fisher

Fear and Loathing in São Paulo: Slum Metaphysics in the “Coffin Joe” Triptych (1964–2008)
Antonio Barrenechea

Reflections on Afghanistan

Afghanistan: It Wasn’t a War—That’s Why We Lost It
Marcia Pally

Afghanistan, “We Hardly Knew Ye”: Why the Lessons of Vietnam Were Not Learned
David A. Westbrook

Reviews

Ecocritique in the Anthropocene
Garnet Kindervater

The Path Least Traveled: An Alternative to Current Critiques of Neoliberalism
Alexis Carré

Self-Hating Nazis
Gabriel Noah Brahm