UID:
kobvindex_DGP1761535013
Format:
xv, 503 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780231201506
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9780231201513
Series Statement:
Film and culture series
Content:
"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. These theaters aimed to provide a quintessentially "American" experience. Outfitted with American technology and accoutrements, they allowed local audiences to watch American films in an American-owned cinema in a distinctly American way. In a history that stretches from Buenos Aires and Tokyo to Johannesburg and Cairo, Ross Melnick considers these movie houses as cultural embassies. He examines how the exhibition of Hollywood films became a constant flow of political and consumerist messaging, selling American ideas, products, and power, especially during fractious eras. Melnick demonstrates that while Hollywood's marketing of luxury and consumption often struck a chord with local audiences, it was also frequently tone-deaf to new social, cultural, racial, and political movements. He argues that the story of Hollywood's global cinemas is not a simple narrative of cultural and industrial indoctrination and colonization. Instead, it is one of negotiation, booms and busts, successes and failures, adoptions and rejections, and a precursor to later conflicts over the spread of American consumer culture. A truly global account, Hollywood's Embassies shows how the entanglement of worldwide movie theaters with American empire offers a new way of understanding film history and the history of U.S. soft power"--
Note:
Literaturangaben
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231554138
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Melnick, Ross Hollywood's embassies New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Melnick, Ross, 1975 - Hollywood's Embassies New York : Columbia University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780231554138
Language:
English
Keywords:
Kino
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USA
;
Filmwirtschaft
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