Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. INTRODUCTION Revolutionary Spirit Mediumship 1
5. PART ONE Projectionists as Media Infrastructure
6. CHAPTER ONE Cinematic Nation-Building: Media Networks and Spiritual Battlegrounds 41
7. CHAPTER TWO Mobile Projectionists and the Things They Carried 66
8. CHAPTER THREE The Three Sisters Movie Team: Projecting Models, Model Projectionists, and Female Projectionists 91
9. CHAPTER FOUR The Cost of Spiritual Food: A Ritual Economy of Rural Cinema 121
10. PART TWO Audiences as Creative Agents
11. CHAPTER FIVE The Hot Noise of Open-Air Cinema 145
12. CHAPTER SIX Guerrilla Cinema and Guerrilla Reception 163
13. CHAPTER SEVEN Transcultural Guerrillas: The Reception of Foreign Films in Socialist China 193
14. CHAPTER EIGHT Poisonous Weeds and Censorship as Exorcism 215
15. Epilogue 241
16. Appendix: Interviews 251
17. Notes 265
18. Index 323