Cinematic guerrillas: propaganda, projectionists, and audiences in socialist China

Introduction : revolutionary spirit mediumship

Cinematic nation-building : media networks and spiritual battlegrounds

Mobile projectionists and the things they carried

The three sisters movie team : projecting models, model projectionists, and female projectionists

The cost of spiritual food : a ritual economy of rural cinema

The hot noise of open-air cinema

Guerrilla cinema and guerrilla reception

Transcultural guerrillas : the reception of foreign films in socialist China

Poisonous weeds and censorship as exorcism

Epilogue.