Selling Hollywood to the World - Us European Struggles for Mastery of Global Film Industry, 1920 1950

Klappentext This book investigates European efforts to overcome the American film industry's international pre-eminence. Zusammenfassung The global expansion of Hollywood and American popular culture in the first decades of the twentieth century met with strong opposition throughout the world. This book investigates European efforts to overcome the American film industry's pre-eminence. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: John Trumpbour, John (Harvard University Trumpbour, Trumpbour John
• Assisted by: Garth Jowett (Editor), Kenneth Short (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2002
• EAN: 9780521651561
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65156-1
• No. of pages: 398
• Series: Cambridge Handbooks to the His; Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Entertainment, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Film, TV and Radio industries, Cinema Industry, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism