Ross Melnick (Emory University Professor)

Hollywood's Embassies

How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World

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Produktbeschreibung

Beginning in the 1920s, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie theaters that were owned and operated by the major American film companies. In a history that stretches from Buenos Aires and Tokyo to Johannesburg and Cairo, Ross Melnick considers these movie houses as cultural embassies.

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Produktdetails

• Film and Culture Series
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 838g
• ISBN-13: 9780231201513
• ISBN-10: 0231201516
• Artikelnr.: 60798797

Autorenporträt

Ross Melnick

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Shop Windows," "Cultural Embassies," and Hollywood's Global
Exhibition
Part I. Europe. When Expansion Was Paramount (1923-1993): "Shop Window"
Cinemas and the European Expansion of U.S. Film Exhibitors
1. Hollywood's British Invasion and the Battle of Birmingham, 1919-1929
2. Hollywood's European Adventure, 1925-1941
3. A New Battleground: U.S. Exhibitors Under Nazi Occupation, 1941-1945
4. Postwar Europe and the Legacy of Hollywood Cinemas, 1945-1993
Part II. Australasia. Banking on Australasia (1930-1982): Global Banks and
U.S. Cinema Ownership in Australia and New Zealand
5. Fox Chases Hoyts: U.S. Cinema Ownership in Australia, 1930-1936
6. The Fox Chase in New Zealand and Australia, 1936-1946
7. Hollywood and Australasian Cinemas, 1946-1982
Part III: Latin America and the Caribbean. Hollywood in Cinelandia
(1927-1973): U.S. Cinemas and Local Politics in Latin America and the
Caribbean
8. Cine Metros y Cine Paramounts, 1926-1941: MGM and Paramount's Latin
American Shop Window Cinemas
9. Prop(aganda) Window Cinemas, 1933-1945: Ufa, Hollywood, and the Battle
for Hearts and Minds Through South American Cinemas During World War II
10. Hollywood Cinema Expansion in Postwar South America, 1945-1973
11. Caribbean Dreams, 1929-1973: Hollywood Cinemas in Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto
Rico, and Trinidad
Part IV. Middle East. Hollywood's Muddle East (1925-1982): Political Change
in Egypt and Israel and the Consequences for Hollywood's Middle Eastern
Cinemas
12. Buildings, Ballyhoo, and Boycotts in Egypt, 1925-1947: Alternating
Realities at Hollywood's Egyptian Cinemas
13. No Meeting in the Middle, 1947-1956: Hollywood Cinemas, Egyptian
Revolution, and Israeli Independence
14. After the Revolution, 1957-1982: Twentieth Century-Fox, Egypt, and
Israel
Part V. Africa. An "Unhappy Image of the United States Before an African
Population" (1932-1975): Race, Industry, and Rebellion at Hollywood's
African Cinemas
15. MGM and the "Uncrowned King of South Africa," 1932-1937: Hollywood Shop
Window Cinemas in a Bitterly Protected Market
16. Fox Hunting on the African Continent, 1937-1956: Twentieth Century-Fox
and the Struggle for Control of African Cinemas
17. A "Royal" Mess: Racial Strife in Colonial Zimbabwe, the Struggle for
Independence in Postcolonial Kenya, and the End of Hollywood's Control of
South African Cinemas, 1959-1975
Part VI. Asia. Eastern Promises (1927-2013): Hollywood's Cinemas in China,
India, Japan, and the Philippines
18. Benshi and Ballyhoo, 1927-1973: Hollywood's Shop Window Cinemas in
Japan and the Philippines
19. Joining the Global Metro Cub Club, 1936-1973: MGM and Fox's Shop Window
Cinemas in India
20. China as Hollywood's Final Frontier, 1946-2013: Hollywood's Chinese
Cinemas and the End of Hollywood's Exhibition Empires
Epilogue: Global Exhibition Flows in Reverse Before the Pandemic, 2013-2019
Notes
Index