World Cinema and the Visual Arts

Preface; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1. Projecting a More Habitable Globe: Hollywood’s Yellow Peril and Its Refraction onto 1930s Shanghai National Cinema - Lily Wong; Chapter 2. Berlin – The City of Sound and Sensation in Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ and E. A. Dupont’s ‘Varieté’ - Isa Murdock-Hinrichs; Chapter 3. Bond’s Body: ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, ‘Casino Royale’ and the Future Anterior - Shelton Waldrep; Chapter 4. Whatever You Say, Say Nothing - Anna Zaluczkowska; Chapter 5. Imperial Gazes, Hollywood Predators: A Cinema of Molestation in Postcolonial Indian Literature - Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield; Chapter 6. Linguistic Identity in Fruit Chan’s 1997 Trilogy - Howard Y. F. Choy; Chapter 7. The Postnational and the Aesthetics of the Spectral: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s ‘Flight of the Red Balloon’ - Je Cheol Park; Chapter 8. The Art Object as Text in the Practice of Comparative Visuality - Jane Chin Davidson; Chapter 9. Exploring In-humanity: Gertrude Stein’s ‘Tender Buttons’ and Still-Life Painting - Nandini Ramesh Sankar; Chapter 10. Re-defining Art: Manuel Rivas’ ‘Mujer en el baño’ - Ana-María Medina; Chapter 11. Re-envisioning the Haunting Past: Kara Walker’s Art and the Re-appropriation of the Visual Codes of the Antebellum South - Minna Niemi; Bibliography; Index

‘Ranging from Berlin to Shanghai and beyond, ‘World Cinema and the Visual Arts’ is a whirlwind tour through an exhilarating landscape of new scholarship, much of it by young scholars. The perspectives are diverse and fresh. As a collection, it counters the Eurocentrism that continues to dominate English-language academia with a truly global perspective.’ —Dr Chris Berry, Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London