Selling Hollywood to the World

US and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

AvJohn Trumpbour,Massachusetts) Trumpbour, John (Harvard University

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The global expansion of Hollywood and American popular culture in the first decades of the twentieth century met with strong opposition throughout the world. Determined to defeat such resistance, the Hollywood moguls created a powerful trade organization that worked closely with the US State Department in an effort to expand the American film industry's dominance worldwide. This book offers insight into and analysis of European efforts to overcome the American film industry's pre-eminence. It focuses particularly on Britain, Hollywood's largest overseas market of the interwar years; France, a nation with an alternative vision of cinema; and Belgium, which was entrusted by the Vatican with coordination of the international movement against depravity in films. In contributing to the understanding of American popular culture at home and abroad, this study demonstrates Hollywood's role in orchestrating the American Century.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-04-25
Mått161 x 236 x 31 mm
Vikt750 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication
Antal sidor398
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521651561
UtmärkelserAllan Nevins Prize for Literary Distinction in the writing of history from the Society of American Historians

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Elektronik och kommunikationer inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Film inom Kultur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Media och underhållning inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The United States: 1. The domestic roots of Hollywood's foreign policy: censorship and corporatism in the formation of the MPPDA, 1921–41; 2. Hollywood and the State department: overseas expansion and America's subversion; 3. The MPAA and the State department: order and autonomy in the postwar world; Part II. Great Britain: 4. Grierson, the documentary spirit and the projection of Britain; 5. The Korda road to riches, recovery and ruin; 6. The age of rank; 7. The US-UK film conflict: the fading dream of mastering Hollywood; Part III. Two Continental Case Studies: Belgium and France: 8. Belgium and the making of an international Catholic film movement; 9. France and resistance to Hollywood: empire, artisans and the state; 10. France and the politics of state intervention; Conclusion; Notes; Selected bibliography; Filmography; Index.

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