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The world as a readymade: a conversation with Ai Weiwei 现成的世界:与艾未未对话

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Transnational Screens Pub Date : 2022-04-17 DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2022.2061143

Ana Cristina Mendes, Ai Weiwei

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‘The kaleidoscopic conditions’ of John Akomfrah’s Stuart Hall 约翰·阿康弗拉的《斯图亚特·霍尔》的“万花筒般的环境”

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Transnational Screens Pub Date : 2022-04-13 DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2022.2061130

James J. Harvey

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The battle of Algiers 阿尔及尔战役

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Transnational Screens Pub Date : 2022-02-14 DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2022.2031139

M. Sharpe

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Towards a transnational turn(?): success stories, transgressive politics, and artistic initiative in recent Greek Cypriot cinema 迈向跨国转向:希族塞人电影的成功故事、越轨政治与艺术创举

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Transnational Screens Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2022.2061124

C. Constandinides

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Borders and migration in Urszula Antoniak’s Pomiędzy słowami/Beyond Words (2017) 乌尔苏拉·安东尼亚克的《Pomiędzy słowami/Beyond Words》中的边界与移民

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Transnational Screens Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2022.2044248

J. Zelechowski

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Dancing across European and Latin-American Borders: Pili and Mili’s transnational musical films of the 1960s 跨越欧洲和拉丁美洲边界的舞蹈:Pili和Mili在20世纪60年代的跨国音乐电影

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Transnational Screens Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2022.2064087

Santiago Lomas Martínez

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Notice of duplicate publication: The battle of Algiers 复印公告:阿尔及尔战役

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Transnational Screens Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2022.2066898

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Notice of duplicate publication: Vitalina’s (in)visibility: contemporary Portugal and the cinema of human mobility 复刊通知:维塔利纳的可见度:当代葡萄牙和人类流动的电影

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Transnational Screens Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2022.2066852

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Vitalina’s (in)visibility: contemporary Portugal and the cinema of human mobility 维塔利纳的可见度:当代葡萄牙和人类流动的电影

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Transnational Screens Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2022.2034218

Mariana Liz

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Histrionics of a Hong Kong migrant: Shu Qi’s transnational performance style in A Beautiful Life 一个香港移民的表演:舒淇在《美丽人生》中的跨国表演风格

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Transnational Screens Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2022.2041335

Sebastian Byrne

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