Introduction / Kevin Rockett and John Hill -- Islands in the sea of cinema / Dudley Andrew -- The cinematograph in provincial Ireland, 1896-1906 : exhibition and reception / Niamh McCole -- Partitionist viewing : the split in newsreel coverage of Ireland during the Second World War / Ciara Chambers -- "The States is brilliant" : generic hybridity in I went down (1997) and Divorcing Jack (1998) / Kevin Cunnane -- American dreams and Irish myths : John Sayles' The secret of Roan Inish / Pádraic Whyte -- From waste to worth : the politics of self-sacrifice in H₃ / Aileen Blaney -- Sectarian violence in contemporary Indian cinema : aesthetics of Dev (2004) and Mr. and Mrs. lyer (2002) / Rashmi Sawhney -- Mirroring narcissism : representation of zainichi in Yukisada Isao's Go! / Mika Ko -- The films of Andrei Tarkovsky : between the spiritual and the ecological / John Dara Waldron -- Music, modernism, and modernization in Djibril Diop Mambety's Touki bouki / Alexander Fisher -- Designing asynchronous sound for film / Liz Greene.