Selling Hollywood to the world: U.S. and European struggles for mastery of the global film industry, 1920-1950

Abstract

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.

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