In this edited volume, an international ensemble of scholars looks at how the world's various cinemas, including Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the U.S., have variously performed, contested, and reinforced the worldwide transition to neoliberalism. Grounded in Marxist theory, the volume considers how the contradictions of capital, both as culture and commerce, have played out globally in contemporary media culture.

Section 1: Hollywood and Global Dominance 1. 'For a better deal, Harass Your Governor!': Neoliberalism and Hollywood, Toby Miller and Richard Maxwell 2. A Legacy of Neoliberalism: Patterns in Media Conglomeration, Eileen R. Meehan 3. 21st Century Neoliberal Man, Deborah Tudor Section 2: Latin America 4. Cuban Cinema: A Case of Accelerated Underdevelopment, Michael Chanan 5. Politics and Privatization in Peruvian Cinema: Grupo Chaski's Aesthetics of Survival, Sophia A. McClennen 6. Form, Politics and Culture: a case study of The Take, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and Listen To Venezuela, Mike Wayne and Deirdre O'Neill Section 3: Asia 7. Market Socialism and Its Discontent: Jia Zhangke's Cinematic Narrative of China's Transition in the Age of Global Capital, Xudong Zhang 8. "Leitmotif": State, Market, and Postsocialist Film Industry Under Neoliberal Globalization, Ying Xiao 9. From Exploitation to Playful Exploits: The Rise of Collectives and the Redefinition of Labor, Life, and Representation in Neoliberal Japan, Sharon Hayashi 10. The Underdevelopment of Development: Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Bourgeois Individualism, Jyotsna Kapur 11. Fragments of Labor: Neoliberal Attitudes and Architectures in Contemporary South Korean Cinema, Keith B. Wagner 12. Mainlandization and Neoliberalism with Post-colonial and Chinese Characteristics: Challenges for the Hong Kong Film Industry, Mirana M. Szeto and Yun-chung Chen 13. Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism in Singaporean Cinema: A Case Study of Perth, Jenna Ng 14. Gambling on Life and Death: Neoliberal Rationality and the Films of Jeffrey Jeturian, Bliss Cua Lim Section 4: Africa and Europe 15. Nollywood in Lagos, Lagos in Nollywood Films, Jonathan Haynes 16. French Cinema: Counter-model, Cultural exception, Resistances, Martin O'Shaughnessy