American Films Abroad
Title | American Films Abroad PDF eBook |
Author | Kerry Segrave |
Publisher | |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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While Hollywood contends that the domination of American films abroad is due to the quality of its product, the truth is that the major American movie studios have established a virtual worldwide monopoly on the distribution and exhibition of the film industry. The United States government has greatly aided Hollywood's effort's and continues to do so.The U.S. governemnt first became heavily involved with the film industry in 1916 when U.S. consuls were instructed to report on the market for American movies. The government, in turn, made this information available to the industry. Eight companies (MGM, Paramount, 20th Century-Fox, RKO, Warner Bros., Universal, United Artists, and Columbia) used the government information to establish a virtual cartel. This work examines the practices of this cartel in its various forms, how it came to dominate the industry worldwide, and the role the U.S. government has played in advancing its monopolistic practices.
Foreign Films in America
Title | Foreign Films in America PDF eBook |
Author | Kerry Segrave |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2014-11-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0786481625 |
Foreign films once enjoyed a position of prominence on American theater screens. By the start of World War I, however, the United States' film industry was strong enough to challenge that foreign presence and foreign films in America have been insignificant ever since. For about a century, the Hollywood cartel has dominated the production, distribution, and exhibition of movies domestically and around the world. This work traces the history of the foreign film in America from its domination in the early days to its low standing in the present, looking at the attempts made by foreign producers to increase their presence on American cinema screens, the responses by Hollywood to those attempts, and the oligopoly of Hollywood's few producers. The work discusses the cultural differences between foreign artistic expression and the commercialism of the American film and analyzes Hollywood's explanations for the lack of a foreign presence: Americans have "unique" tastes, they don't like subtitles, foreign films are immoral or badly made, trade union pressure, and so on. An appendix detailing the all-time gross earnings of foreign-language films and a full bibliography conclude the work, which is illustrated with stills and posters.
Hollywood Abroad
Title | Hollywood Abroad PDF eBook |
Author | Melvyn Stokes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Foreign films |
ISBN | 9781838710194 |
"Hollywood Abroad is the first book to examine the reception of Hollywood movies by non-American audiences. Although numerous books on film history have analyzed the ways in which American films came to dominate world markets, there has so far been very little published work on how audiences outside the United States have responded to Hollywood-produced films. Hollywood Abroad explores the reception of U.S. films in Britain, France, Belgium, Turkey, Australia, India, Japan, and Central Africa. The book covers topics from the first major penetration of American films into France, Britain, and Australia to the impact of such films as The Best Years of Our Lives to the response of Belgian young people in the age of the multiplex. It demonstrates that the story of the reception of American films overseas is less one of domination than of a complex adoption of Hollywood into various cultures."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
American Films Abroad
Title | American Films Abroad PDF eBook |
Author | Orton Havergal Hicks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 10 |
Release | 1947 |
Genre | Motion pictures, American |
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Describes the importance of the distribution of American films overseas to the motion picture industry, the national economy, and the cause of world peace.
A Foreign Affair
Title | A Foreign Affair PDF eBook |
Author | Gerd Gemünden |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2008-04-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0857450662 |
With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish émigré from Central Europe? This book underscores this complex issue, unpacking underlying contradictions where previous commentators routinely smoothed them out. Wilder emerges as an artist with roots in sensationalist journalism and the world of entertainment as well as with an awareness of literary culture and the avant-garde, features that lead to productive and often highly original confrontations between high and low.
Beyond Hollywood's Grasp
Title | Beyond Hollywood's Grasp PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Waldman |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780810828414 |
Recounts the period in which American directors, stars, and technicians ventured beyond America's shores to first make films abroad. But out of sight, they were quickly forgotten, or worse, ignored back home, though as a group they produced more than 200 films in 30 years.This is the story of those films--illustrated with 60 rarely seen stills--and the filmmakers who created them.
Hollywood Abroad
Title | Hollywood Abroad PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Maltby |
Publisher | British Film Institute |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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