This special issue of Cinéma & Cie explores the cultural dynamics, ideological aporias and political struggles that characterize the relationship between Maoism and national cinemas, from the immediate aftermath of the Cultural Revolution to the present day. All the articles included in the special issue highlight the complexity of the process of translation and ‘reinvention’ of Maoism in different cultural contexts, focusing on subjects and historical episodes that have been suppressed in public debates and in traditional film history booksTable of Contents1.Reinventing Mao: Maoisms and National CinemasYomi Braester - We Have Never Been Chaste: Sexuality and Cinephilia in Post-Maoist CinemaKristian Feigelson - Chinese Fictions in France and Shadows in ChinaMan-tat Terence LEUNG - Struggling between Two Fronts: Godard, Dziga Vertov Group and theEthical Predicaments of Post-1968 French MaoismStephanie Benzaquen-Gautier - Ethnographies of the Khmer Rouge Revolution: Democratic Kampuchea in Movies (1975-1978)Sanghita Sen -The Spring Thunder: Revisiting the Naxal Movement in Indian CinemaWendy Xie - What’s Chairman Mao Got to Do with It? Nostalgia, Intertextuality and Reconstructing Revolutionary Myth in Tsui Hark’s The Taking of Tiger Mountain by Strategy2.Beyond CinemaPermanent Call for EssaysPepita Hesselberth - Connect, Disconnect, Reconnect: Historicizing the Current Gesture towards Disconnectivity, from the Plug-in Drug to the Digital DetoxReviews / Comptes-rendusProjects & AbstractsContributors / Collaborateurs