Melvyn Stokes is Professor of Film History, and Director of the AHRC-funded 'Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s' research project at University College London, UK. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton, a Fulbright Exchange Professor at Mount Holyoke College and a Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris He has written and edited twelve books, including D.W. Griffith's 'The Birth of a Nation': A History of 'the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time' (2007). He is currently President of SERCIA, the European film organisation.

1.Introduction: The Americanization of the World; Richard Maltby.- 2. The Reception of American Films in France, c. 1910-1920; Raphaelle Costa de Beauregard and Melvyn Stokes;.-  3. 'A Great American Sensation': Thomas Ince's Civilization at The Palladium, Southampton, 1917; Michael Hammond.- 4. A balanced show: the Australian picture theatre manager at work in 1922; Anne Bittner.- 5. Cowboys, jaffas and pies: researching cinema-going in the Illawarra; Nancy Huggett and Kate Bowles.- 6. Hollywood and the Multiple Constituencies of Colonial India; Priya Jaikumar.- 7. 'Home of American Movies': Subaru Za and the Making of Hollywood's Audiences in Occupied Tokyo, 1946-1949; Hiroshi Kitamura.- 8. The Making of Our America: Hollywood in a Turkish context; Nezih Erdogan.- 9. Popular Films and Colonial Audiences in Central Africa; Charles Ambler.- 10. 'It's the language of film!': Young film audiences on Hollywood and Europe; Philippe Meers.