Introduction / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller -- Cinemas of empire. Italian fascism's empire cinema: Kif Tebbi, The conquest of Libya, and The assault on the nomadic / Ruth Ben-Ghiat -- Blackface, faciality, and colony nostalgia in 1930s empire films / Julie Codell -- The socialist historical film: nested Orientalisms / Anikó Imre -- Postcolonial cinemas: unframing histories. From "over there" to inside: Camp de thiaroye, The battle of Algiers and Hidden / Hamish Ford -- Fraught frames: Fatima, l'algérienne de Dakar and postcolonial quandaries / Jude Akudinobi -- Postcolonial Relationalities: Toulon, Oran, Mecca, and Palestine: Philippe Faucon's Dans la vie / Mireille Rosello -- The postcolonial condition of "Indochinese" cinema from Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos / Mariam B. Lam -- Postcolonial cinemas: aesthetics. Spectral postcoloniality: Lusophone postcolonial film and the imaginary of the nation / Paulo de Medeiros -- The aesthetics of postcolonial cinema in Raul Ruiz's Three crowns of the sailor / Sabine Doran -- The postcolonial circus: Maurizio Nichetti's Luna e l'altra / Marguerite Waller -- Postcolonial adaptations: Gained and Lost in translation / Sandra Ponzanesi -- postcolonial ciinemas and globalization -- Postcolonial cinemas and globalization.