Selling Hollywood to the World U. S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950

Name: Selling Hollywood to the World U. S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950
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ISBN: 9780521042666

ISBN-10: 0521042666

ISBN-13: 9780521042666

Edition: 2002

Authors: John Trumpbour

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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 worldwide. Determined to defeat such resistance, the Hollywood moguls of the time created a powerful trade organization that worked closely with the U.S. State Department in an effort to expand the American film industry's dominance. This book offers insight into and analysis of European efforts to overcome the American film industry's pre-eminence. In contributing to the understanding of American popular culture at home and abroad, it demonstrates Hollywood's role in orchestrating the American century.

Book details

List price: $64.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/21/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction



The United States



The domestic roots of Hollywood-s foreign policy: censorship and corporatism in the formation of the MPPDA, 1921-1941



Hollywood and the State department: overseas expansion and America-s subversion



The MPAA and the State department: order and autonomy in the postwar world



Great Britain



Grierson, the documentary spirit and the projection of Britain



The Korda road to riches, recovery and ruin



The age of rank



The US-UK film conflict: the fading dream of mastering Hollywood



Two Continental Case Studies: Belgium and France



Belgium and the making of an International Catholic Film Movement



France and resistance to Hollywood: empire, artisans and the state



France and the politics of state intervention


Conclusion


Notes


Selected bibliography


Filmography


Index