Ian Jarvie

Hollywood's Overseas Campaign

The North Atlantic Movie Trade, 1920 1950

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A history of how the American film industry succeeded in dominating the film markets of Canada and Great Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9780521041430
• ISBN-10: 0521041430
• Artikelnr.: 23033557

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables and figures
Preface
General introduction
Part I. A Small Market - Canada: 1. The White Report and the trial of Famous Players, 1932
2. Before the White Report, 1920-1930
3. After the White Report, 1932-1950
Part II. America's Biggest Foreign Market: The United Kingdom: 4. The road to a British quota system, 1920-1927
5. Trade policy, politics and the 1938 act, 1928-1938
6. War and currency crisis, 1939-1945
7. Trial of strength: Hollywood's boycott of the British market, 1947-1948
8. Postwar measures: the boycott and its aftermath, 1945-1950
Part III. The US Motion Picture Industry and its Overseas System: 9. The MPPDA and the beginnings of organization, 1920-1922
10. Machinery without policy, 1923-1932
11. The system in operation, 1933-1941
12. Protecting the system in wartime, 1942-1945
13. Adapting the system to peace, 1945-1950
Epilogue
References
Filmography
Index of names
Index of subjects.