Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- General Editor's Introduction -- Introduction -- 1. 'Temporary American Citizens': Audiences and Americanization -- 2. 'For the Purpose of Pleasing Women': British Fan Culture and Rudolph Valentino -- 3. 'Two Countries Divided by a Common Language': The Arrival of the Talkies -- 4. 'Nothing Ever Happens in England': Keeping the Gangsters at Bay -- 5. 'The Minx's Progress': Gone with the Wind as Britain's Favourite War Film -- 6. 'The American Film Par Excellence': Domesticating the Western -- 7. 'The Sixth Form Was Never Like This': Grease (1978) and the American 1950s -- 8. 'The Wrong Side of the Special Relationship': The Patriot (2000) and the War of Independence in Films -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.