List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Theorizing Multiple Globalizations: Neoliberal Globalization, Cultural Globalization and Deglobalization in World Cinema and Global Cinema
Keith B. Wagner, Seung-hoon Jeong, Meta Mazaj

Neoliberal Globalization

Chapter 1
The Wageless Life of the Subaltern: The World Bank and Critiquing structural adjustment in Abderrahmane Sissako’s Bamako (2006)
Stephen Morton

Chapter 2
The disappearance of the working-class hero in the New Independent Turkish Cinema: globalization and the politics of festivalism
Aslı Daldal

Chapter 3
Hearing “Unexceptional” Women amidst Overlapping Globalizations and Feminisms in Haifaa Al-Mansour’s Saudi Films
Dale Hudson

Chapter 4
Neoliberal and Cultural Globalization of Contemporary Australian Cinema: Criminal Networks, Gold Mines and Movie Stars in Son of a Gun (2014)
Tommaso Durante

Chapter 5 Age of Extinction and Wolf Warrior 2: Projecting the Asian Century in Chinese Cinema
Maria Bose

Cultural Globalization

Chapter 6
Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama: The pioneering case of a trans-Asian anime film co-production and its globalization
Ryotaro Mihara

Chapter 7
Trash (2014) and the garbage aesthetic from Brazil
Stephanie Dennison

Chapter 8
Nationalism from Below: State Failures, Nollywood, and Nigerian Pidgin
Jonathan Haynes

Chapter 9
Confronting Ideologies in Contemporary Eastern European Cinema
Veronika Hermann

Chapter 10
Arctic and Sámi Truth and Reconciliation Cinemas in a Global Context Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Scott MacKenzie

Deglobalization

Chapter 11
Hollywood’s Refraction of a New Cold War: ‘Smart’ Tactics in Blockbuster Adaptation and Sequelization Seung-hoon Jeong
Chapter 12
Nationalist Ideologies in the Time of Transnational Cinema: On the Double Life of S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR (2022) between India and the World
Nisarg Patel
Chapter 13
Astroculture and Cosmetic Multiculturalism in Space Sweepers (2021): Advancing Global Science Fiction and Deglobalization in South Korean Cinema
Keith B. Wagner, Michael A. Unger, Cristiane Melchior, Hannele Seeck

Chapter 14
Deglobalization and Audacious Form in Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Looney Porn (2021) and Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (2023)
Meta Mazaj

Index