Introduction; 1: From Battle of Algiers to Outside the Law: Translating the Algerian Revolution for the Contemporary Era; 2: Networks of Extremity: Militancy in Bab El-Oued City and Timbuktu; 3: Kurds on Screen and Bahman Ghobadi’s Networks of Resistance; 4: Jia Zhangke’s Aimless Youths: Witnessing Economic Reform in the People’s Republic of China; 5: Ramin Bahrani’s Fragmented Dreams: Contemporary American Realist Cinema and the Broken Cliché; Bibliography