'World Cinema and the Visual Arts' combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. The films analysed encompass a wide geographical base, and have been drawn from a diverse array of cultural traditions.

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

David Gallagher is the German subfield editor for the ‘Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography’.