World Cinema's 'Dialogues' With Hollywood

PAUL COOKE is Professor of German Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Speaking the Taboo: A Study of the Work of Wolfgang Hilbig, The Pocket Essential to German Expressionist Film, and Representing East Germany: From Colonization to Nostalgia.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: World Cinema's 'Dialogues' with Hollywood; P.Cooke From Caligari to Edward Scissorhands: The Continuing Meta-Cinematic Journey of German Expressionism; P.Cooke Dream Factory and Film Factory: The Soviet Response to Hollywood 1917-1941; G.Roberts Anglo-American Collaboration: Korda, Selznick and Goldwyn; C.Drazin From Pirandello to MGM: When Classical Hollywood Reads European Literature; C.O'Rawe The Modernism of Frank Capra and European Ethical Thought; S.B.Girgus The Transnational Journey of the Celluloid Baiana : Round-Trip Rio-LA; L.Shaw The American Dream in Post-War Italy; G.Nowell-Smith Colonising the European Utopia: Hollywood Musicals in Europe; F.Handyside Sex, Gender and Auteurism: The French New Wave and Hollywood; D.Holmes A Fistful of Yojimbo : Appropriation and Dialogue in Japanese Cinema; R.Hutchinson All that Melodrama Allows: Sirk, Fassbinder, Almodóvar, Haynes; E.M.Thau Lost in Translation: A Few Vagaries of the Alphabet Game Played Between Bombay Cinema and Hollywood; K.Bhaumik Between Sunrise and Sunset: An Elliptical Dialogue Between American and European Cinema; R.Stone Hero : How Chinese Is It?; J.Stringer & Qiong Yu Index