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

ISBN-13: 9780521651561 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 398 str.

John Trumpbour

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'Trumpbour is to be congratulated for never treating complex issues as simple matters of black or white...[his] research is impressive … and the book has tremendous value for the background it provides on current debates about globalization and Hollywood's continuing domination of the international film scene.' Business History Review

Spis treści

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.