Hollywood's Overseas Campaign

• List of tables and figures; Preface; General introduction; Part I. A Small Market - Canada: 1. The White Report and the trial of Famous Players, 1932; 2. Before the White Report, 1920–1930; 3. After the White Report, 1932–1950; Part II. America's Biggest Foreign Market: The United Kingdom: 4. The road to a British quota system, 1920–1927; 5. Trade policy, politics and the 1938 act, 1928–1938; 6. War and currency crisis, 1939–1945; 7. Trial of strength: Hollywood's boycott of the British market, 1947–1948; 8. Postwar measures: the boycott and its aftermath, 1945–1950; Part III. The US Motion Picture Industry and its Overseas System: 9. The MPPDA and the beginnings of organization, 1920–1922; 10. Machinery without policy, 1923–1932; 11. The system in operation, 1933–1941; 12. Protecting the system in wartime, 1942–1945; 13. Adapting the system to peace, 1945–1950; Epilogue; References; Filmography; Index of names; Index of subjects.

"Hollywood's Overseas Campaign is an impressive work of scholarship and unique in that it treats film as a commodity in an economic process rather than as an icon in the more traditional aesthetic and cultural approaches." Wilson Library Bulletin