During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945 1952), U.S. film studios in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers launched an ambitious campaign to extend their power and influence in a historically rich but challenging film market. In this far-reaching "enlightenment campaign," Hollywood studios disseminated more than six hundred films to theaters, earned significant profits, and showcased the American way of life as a political, social, and cultural model for the war-shattered Japanese population.
In Screening...
During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945 1952), U.S. film studios in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command fo...
