Hollywood''s Overseas Campaign - The North Atlantic Movie Trade, 1920-1950

Klappentext A history of how the American film industry succeeded in dominating the film markets of Canada and Great Britain. Zusammenfassung A history of how the American film industry succeeded in dominating the film markets of Canada and Great Britain in the period 1920–1950 showing how efficiently it operated internationally. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Ian Jarvie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.09.2007
• EAN: 9780521041430
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04143-0
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries