Cover -- SILENT CINEMA AND THE POLITICS OF SPACE -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Picturing Space -- Introduction -- 1 Location, "Location": On the Plausibility of Place Substitution -- 2 Insurgent Place as Visual Space: Location Shots and Rival Geographies of 1857 Lucknow -- Part II. Prints in Motion -- Introduction -- 3 Robespierre Has Been Lost: D. W. Griffith's Movies and the Soviet Twenties -- 4 An Afterlife for Junk Prints: Serials and Other "Classics" in Late-1920s Tehran -- 5 Translations and Transportation: Toward a Transnational History of the Intertitle -- Part III. Impertinent Appropriations -- Introduction -- 6 From Misemono to Zigomar: A Discursive History of Early Japanese Cinema -- 7 The Crisscrossed Stare: Protest and Propaganda in China's Not-So-Silent Era -- 8 Around the World in Eighty Minutes: Douglas Fairbanks and the Indian Stunt Film -- Part IV. Cosmopolitan Sexualities and Female Stars -- Introduction -- 9 National Soul / Cosmopolitan Skin: Swedish Cinema at a Crossroads -- 10 Queer Crossings: Greta Garbo, National Identity, and Gender Deviance -- 11 Cosmopolitan Women: Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.