Table of Contents: “…Delayed cinema and "this space-time of freedom": De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948) -- La Demora (2012) -- Existence and ethics in the Dardenne Brothers' Two Days, One Night (2015) -- El Viaje: Tommy Lee Jones and the violent times of the mission to Mexico -- The American way: time, death, and resurrection in Iñárritu's Western masterpiece.…”
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Table of Contents: “…A moment and a country -- Realism and neorealism -- Literary neorealism : narration and testimony -- Rossellini's cities of war and resistance -- Wandering among De Sica's urbanites : shoeshiners, bicycle thieves, miraculous outcasts and a man with a dog -- Visconti's worlds of aestheticism and ideology : between tradition and invention, from country to city -- Faces and spaces of neorealism : from dystopian cities to utopian countries -- The journey beyond neorealism : streetwalkers, political rebels, anti-mafia resisters, stolen children and unwanted citizens.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : hot air and high hopes in world cinema -- Storms over Asia : Mongolia, montage aesthetics, and Jia Zhangke's The world -- Bicycle thieves and pickpockets : Jia Zhangke's Xiao Wu and Patrick Tam's After this our exile -- Brecht in Hong Kong cinema : Ann Hui's Ordinary heroes and Evans Chan's The life and times of Wu Zhongxian -- Les maoïstes, les chinoises, and Jean-Pierre Léaud : China, France, and the sexual politics of the cultural revolution -- Dragons in diaspora : the politics of race in Bruce Lee's Way of the dragon and Louis Leterrier's Danny the dog -- Citing the American dream in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong : Clara Law's Like a dream and Red earth -- Conclusion : cinematic citations and the circulation of Chinese-language motion pictures.…”
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