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Introduction: white like me -- Genre painting and the foundations of modern race -- Landscape photography and the white gaze -- Museum architecture and the imperialism of whiteness -- Silent cinema and the gradations of whiteness -- Epilogue: the triumph of racialized thought

Introduction -- The birth of the cinema age -- Silents in the empire -- Uplifting the empire: colonial cinema and the educational film-movement, 1913-1940 -- The era of the talkies -- Conclusion

Introduction -- On Spaces and Nations. Ewa Mazierska: Squeezing Space, Releasing Space: Spatial Research in the Study of Eastern European Cinema -- Lilya Kaganovsky: Thinking again about Cold War Cinema -- Duan Radunovic: Incommensurable Distance: Versions of National Identity in Georgian Soviet Cinema -- Ideologies of Representation. Evgenija Garbolevsky: Mirrors of Death: Subversive Subtexts in Bulgarian Cinema, 1964-1979 -- Monica Filimon: Popular Cinema in Late 1960s Romania -- John Haynes: Stalinist Cinema and the Search for Audiences: Liubov Orlova and the Case for Star Studies -- (Re)recordings, (Re)focusings, (Re)discoveries. Catherine Portuges: The Political Camera: Comparing 1956 in Three Moments of Hungarian History -- Jeremy Hicks: Back to the Archives: The Testimonial Power of Soviet Silent Footage of the Holocaust -- Sanja Bahun: The Human and the Possible

The social & cultural conditions tied to the birth of cinema in Mexico, its evolution as a means of popular entertainment & culture, & the aspects which distinguish it from cinematic development in other countries are explored. It is suggested that the public's adoption of movies as popular entertainment was based on Mexico's tradition of religious festivals. The early, silent Mexican cinema appealed to the emotions, with dramatic themes, eg, obsession, sacrifice, passion, innocence, death, fate, & glory. Many films were based on Mexican literature, revolution, & nationalism. With the advent of sound, themes became less theatrical. Some saw this as the end of artistic cinema. Cinema became dominated by Hollywood, which did not speak the language of Mexico's culture. Because of widespread illiteracy, subtitles for English-language movies did not work, so eventually Mexico began to produce its own talking cinema. Although still dominated by United States capital & technology, it recovered some of its melodrama & ideological themes. S. Whittle.

Examines Hollywood filmic representations of the mulatta from the silent period through the "talkies," & compares them with those from 1940s Mexican cinema. Issues of propaganda, race relations, & racism are explored, with particular attention to their US & Mexican culture-specific implications. K. Coddon

Grassroots intellectuals: theoretical and historical perspectives -- Wang Xiaobo and the silent majority: redefining the role of intellectuals after Tiananmen -- Minjian historians of the Mao era: commemorating, documenting, debating -- Investigating and transforming society from the margins: the rise and fall of independent cinema -- Professionals at the grassroots: rights lawyers, academics, and petitioners -- Journalists, bloggers, and a new public culture.

Embodied masculinities of male-male desire : the homo magazines and white-collar manliness in early 1970s Japan / Darren J. Aoki -- Lilies of the margin : beautiful boys and queer female identities in Japan / James Welker -- Grrrl-queens : on-kotoba and the negotiation of heterosexist gender language norms and lesbo(homo)phobic stereotypes in Japanese / Claire Maree -- Politics and Islam : factors determining identity and the status of male-to-female transsexuals in Malaysia / Yik Koon Teh -- Recognition through mis-recognition : masculine women in Hong Kong / Lucetta Kam -- Being a young tomboy in Hong Kong : the life and identity construction of lesbian schoolgirls / Carmen Tong -- The romance of the queer : the sexual and gender norms of Tom and Dee in Thailand / Megan Sinnott -- Bad-assed honeys with a difference : South Auckland Fa'afafine talk about identity / Heather Worth -- Villa, Montano, Perez : postcoloniality and gay liberation in the Philippines / J. Neil C. Garcia -- Bading na Bading : evolving Identities in Philippine cinema / Ronald Baytan -- Representation, politics, ethics : rethinking homo/eroticism in contemporary Korean cinema and criticism / Jin-Hyung Park -- Lesbianism and Taiwanese localism in The silent thrush / Teri Silvio -- How to be queer in Taiwan : translation, apppropriation, and the construction of a queer identity in Taiwan / Song Hwee Lim -- King Victoria : Asian drag kings, postcolonial female masculinity, and hybrid sexuality in Australia / Audrey Yue

Introduction / Susan Larson and Eva Woods -- Visibly modern Madrid : Mesonero, visual culture, and the apparatus of urban reform / Rebecca Haidt -- Foresight, blindness, or illusion? : women and citizenship in the second series of Galdòs's Episodios nacionales / David R. George, Jr -- Horror, spectacle and nation-formation : historical painting in late-nineteenth-century Spain / Jo Labanyi -- Isidora in the museum / Luis Fernández Cifuentes -- Thresholds of visibility at the borders of Madrid : Benjamin, Gòmez de la Serna, Mesonero / Andrew Bush -- Seeing the dead : manual and mechanical specters in modern Spain, 1893-1939 / Brad Epps -- Santiago Rusiñol's Impresiones de arte in the age of tourism : seeing Andalusia after seeing Paris / Elena Cueto Asín -- Landscape in the photography of Spain / Lee Fontanella -- From engraving to photo : cross-cut technologies in the Spanish illustrated press / Lou Charnon-Deutsch -- Spain's imaging and regional dress : from everyday object to museum piece and tourist attraction / Jesusa Vega -- Observing the city, mediating the mountain : Mirador and the International Exposition of Barcelona / Robert A. Davidson -- Joan Mirò, 1929 : high and low culture in Barcelona and Paris / Félix Fanås -- Stages of modernity : the uneasy symbiosis of the género chico and early cinema in Madrid / Susan Larson -- Visualizing the time-space of otherness : digression and distraction in Spanish silent film / Eva M. Woods -- Modern anxiety and documentary cinema in Republican Spain / Eva M. Woods -- The last look from the b