| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| 1 | Distant Voices, Still Lives: The Family Is a Dangerous Place: Memory, Gender, and the Image of the working Class | 17 |
| 2 | The Home and the World: The Invention of Modernity in Colonial India | 44 |
| 3 | Eijanaika: Japanese Modernization and the Carnival of Time | 64 |
| 4 | The Night of the Shooting Stars: Fascism, Resistance, and the Liberation of Italy | 77 |
| 5 | Hiroshima Mon Amour: You Must Remember This | 91 |
| 6 | Memories of Underdevelopment: Bourgeois Consciousness/Revolutionary Context | 102 |
| 7 | The Moderns: Art, Forgery, and a Postmodern Narrative of Modernism | 115 |
| 8 | Radio Bikini: Making and Unmaking Nuclear Mythology | 128 |
| 9 | Repentance: Stalinist Terror and the Realism of Surrealism | 139 |
| 10 | Hitler: A Film from Germany: Cinema, History, and Structures of Feeling | 155 |
| 11 | From the Pole to the Equator: A Vision of a Worldless Past | 174 |
| 12 | Walker and Mississippi Burning: Postmodernism Versus Illusionist Narrative | 188 |
| 13 | Walker: The Dramatic Film as (Postmodern) History | 202 |
| Notes | 215 |
| List of Contributors | 243 |
| Film Credits | 247 |
| Index | 249 |
