World Cinema's 'Dialogues' with Hollywood

KAUSHIK BHAUMIK is Research Fellow, The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, The Open University, UK CHARLES DRAZIN lectures on film history at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK SAM B. GIRGUS is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, USA FIONA HANDYSIDE is Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen's University Belfast, UK DIANA HOLMES is Professor of French, University of Leeds, UK RACHAEL HUTCHINSON is Assistant Professor in Japanese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Colgate University, New York, USA GEOFFREY NOWELL-SMITH is Senior Research Fellow, Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London, UK CATHERINE O'RAWE is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies, University of Bristol, UK GRAHAM 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, UK LISA SHAW is Reader in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, University of Liverpool, UK ROB STONE is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Media and Communication, University of Swansea, UK JULIAN 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'i QIONG YU is currently a PhD candidate in the Institute of Film and TV Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK