David H. Fleming is Senior Lecturer in the Communication, Media and Culture division at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He is co-author of The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulhumedia with William Brown (2020), and the author of Unbecoming Cinema (2017).Simon Harrison is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. He is author of The Impulse to Gesture: Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect (2018).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Shi-Story and Theory.- 3. Commercial Overground Shi-Nema: Some Notes onCinematicity and Its Propensity for Selling Dream (Un) Real Estate in Contemporary China.- 4. In-dependent Art Shi-Nema: Decomposing the Main Melody via Monu-mental Time-Images.- 5. Transnational Sci-Fi Shi-nema: Or, Diary Notes from “Westworld” Regarding Neoliberal Dulosis, “Academic” Automatons and the Franchised Post-historical University in the Era of Global “Excellence”.- 6. Shi-Nematic Games (Casino Capitalism).- 7. Epilogue: Disneyfied Dreamwork Shinema-Tracing a New "Old" Path Through the Inauthentic "Traditional.

David H. Fleming is Senior Lecturer in the Communication, Media and Culture division at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He is co-author of The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulhumedia with William Brown (2020), and the author of Unbecoming Cinema (2017).Simon Harrison is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. He is author of The Impulse to Gesture: Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect (2018).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Shi-Story and Theory.- 3. Commercial Overground Shi-Nema: Some Notes onCinematicity and Its Propensity for Selling Dream (Un) Real Estate in Contemporary China.- 4. In-dependent Art Shi-Nema: Decomposing the Main Melody via Monu-mental Time-Images.- 5. Transnational Sci-Fi Shi-nema: Or, Diary Notes from “Westworld” Regarding Neoliberal Dulosis, “Academic” Automatons and the Franchised Post-historical University in the Era of Global “Excellence”.- 6. Shi-Nematic Games (Casino Capitalism).- 7. Epilogue: Disneyfied Dreamwork Shinema-Tracing a New "Old" Path Through the Inauthentic "Traditional.

David H. Fleming is Senior Lecturer in the Communication, Media and Culture division at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He is co-author of The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulhumedia with William Brown (2020), and the author of Unbecoming Cinema (2017).Simon Harrison is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. He is author of The Impulse to Gesture: Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect (2018).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Shi-Story and Theory.- 3. Commercial Overground Shi-Nema: Some Notes onCinematicity and Its Propensity for Selling Dream (Un) Real Estate in Contemporary China.- 4. In-dependent Art Shi-Nema: Decomposing the Main Melody via Monu-mental Time-Images.- 5. Transnational Sci-Fi Shi-nema: Or, Diary Notes from “Westworld” Regarding Neoliberal Dulosis, “Academic” Automatons and the Franchised Post-historical University in the Era of Global “Excellence”.- 6. Shi-Nematic Games (Casino Capitalism).- 7. Epilogue: Disneyfied Dreamwork Shinema-Tracing a New "Old" Path Through the Inauthentic "Traditional.