Introduction: The city's edge / James Tweedie and Yomi Braester -- Interlude 1: Arriving in the city; touring the city; watching the city / Yomi Braester -- Affective spaces in Hong Kong / Chinese cinema / Ackbar Abbas -- Ghost towns / Dudley Andrew -- Interlude 2: Workspace / James Tweedie -- Taipei as Shinjuku's other / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh -- City of youth, ocean of death: Taiyåozoku on the edge of an island / Yiman Wang -- Interlude 3: Neon / James Tweedie -- Transfiguring the postsocialist city: experimental image-making in contemporary China / Zhang Zhen -- Noir looks and the flash of transgression: trauma and the city's edge(s) in A bittersweet life / Susie Jie Young Kim -- Technology and (Chinese) ethnicity / Darrell William Davis -- Interlude 4: In the name of the city / Yomi Braester -- Imaging the globalized city: Rem Koolhaas, U-tháeque, and the Pearl River Delta / Chris Berry -- At the center of the outside: Japanese cinema nowhere / Akira Mizuta Lippit

1. Motion pictures -- East Asia -- Congresses
2. Digital cinematography -- East Asia -- Congresses
3. Cities and towns -- East Asia -- Growth -- Congresses
4. Urbanization -- East Asia -- Congresses
5. Cities and towns in motion pictures -- Congresses