World Cinema's 'dialogues' With Hollywood

Paul Cooke looks at Hollywood's interaction with national and transnational cinemas, from German Expressionism to Bollywood and Chinese film. While Hollywood has had a huge impact on the medium - doing all the talking in the 'dialogue' - world cinema's economic, aesthetic and political relationship with Hollywood is of profound importance.

KAUSHIK BHAUMIK is Research Fellow, The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, The Open University, UKCHARLES DRAZIN lectures on film history at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UKSAM B. GIRGUS is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, USA FIONA HANDYSIDE is Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen's University Belfast, UKDIANA HOLMES is Professor of French, University of Leeds, UKRACHAEL HUTCHINSON is Assistant Professor in Japanese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Colgate University, New York, USAGEOFFREY NOWELL-SMITH is Senior Research Fellow, Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London, UKCATHERINE O'RAWE is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies, University of Bristol, UKGRAHAM ROBERTS is Director of the Institute of Communication Studies and founder of the Louis Le Prince Centre for Research in Cinema, Photography and TV, University of Leeds, UKLISA SHAW is Reader in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, University of Liverpool, UKROB STONE is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Media and Communication, University of Swansea, UKJULIAN STRINGER is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK, and co-ordinating editor of Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies (www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk)ERIC M. THAU is Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Hawai'iQIONG YU is currently a PhD candidate in the Institute of Film and TV Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK