Special Section: Cinema, Symbolism, and the Contemporary Subject Corresponding Editor: Roy Boyne; Roy Boyne, Introduction; David Boothroyd, ""Cinematic Heroin and Narcotic Modernity""; Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, ""Ingmar Bergman and Dream After Freud""; Roy Boyne, ""Cinema and Multitude""; Santiago Fouz-Hernandez, ""Live Flesh: The Representation of the Male Body in the Films of Pedro Almodovar""; David Gillespie, ""The Challenge to Genre: Andrei Tarkovsky and Science Fiction""; Dina Iordanova, ""Multicultural Peripheries in the Global City of Cinema""; Francis Lough, ""La Lengua de las Mariposas: Symbolism and Nostalgia in an Ideological Context""; David Martin-Jones, ""National Symbols: Scottish National Identity in Dog Soldiers""; Alison Smith, ""Between Narrative Fiction and Lived Reality in the Work of Jacques Rivette""; Jason Wirth, ""Signs that Nature Loves to Hide: On Malick's The Thin Red Line""; General Section; Christoph Bode, ""'I have travelled a good deal in Concorde': Romantic Cosmopolitanism and the Quest for the Universal in the Particular""; Nathanael O'Reilly, ""Imagined England: Robinson Crusoe's Nationalism""; Christoph Reinfandt, ""The Pitfalls of Postcolonial Poetics: J. M. Coetzee's Foe and the New Literatures in English"".