Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
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Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
European Motion-picture Industry
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The World According to Hollywood, 1918-1939
Author: Ruth Vasey
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299151942
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The most visible cultural institution on earth between the World Wars, the Hollywood movie industry tried to satisfy worldwide audiences of vastly different cultural, religious, and political persuasions. The World According to Hollywood shows how the industry's self-regulation shaped the content of films to make them salable in as many markets as possible. In the process, Hollywood created an idiosyncratic vision of the world that was glamorous and exotic, but also oddly narrow. Ruth Vasey shows how the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), by implementing such strategies as the industry's Production Code, ensured that domestic and foreign distribution took place with a minimum of censorship or consumer resistance. Drawing upon MPPDA archives, studio records, trade papers, and the records of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Vasey reveals the ways the MPPDA influenced the representation of sex, violence, religion, foreign and domestic politics, corporate capitalism, ethnic minorities, and the conduct of professional classes. Vasey is the first scholar to document fully how the demands of the global market frequently dictated film content and created the movies' homogenized picture of social and racial characteristics, in both urban America and the world beyond. She uncovers telling evidence of scripts and treatments that were abandoned before or during the course of production because of content that might offend foreign markets. Among the fascinating points she discusses is Hollywood's frequent use of imaginary countries as story locales, resulting from a deliberate business policy of avoiding realistic depictions of actual countries. She argues that foreign governments perceived movies not just as articles of trade, but as potential commercial and political emissaries of the United States. Just as Hollywood had to persuade its domestic audiences that its products were morally sound, its domination of world markets depended on its ability to create a culturally and politically acceptable product.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299151942
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The most visible cultural institution on earth between the World Wars, the Hollywood movie industry tried to satisfy worldwide audiences of vastly different cultural, religious, and political persuasions. The World According to Hollywood shows how the industry's self-regulation shaped the content of films to make them salable in as many markets as possible. In the process, Hollywood created an idiosyncratic vision of the world that was glamorous and exotic, but also oddly narrow. Ruth Vasey shows how the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), by implementing such strategies as the industry's Production Code, ensured that domestic and foreign distribution took place with a minimum of censorship or consumer resistance. Drawing upon MPPDA archives, studio records, trade papers, and the records of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Vasey reveals the ways the MPPDA influenced the representation of sex, violence, religion, foreign and domestic politics, corporate capitalism, ethnic minorities, and the conduct of professional classes. Vasey is the first scholar to document fully how the demands of the global market frequently dictated film content and created the movies' homogenized picture of social and racial characteristics, in both urban America and the world beyond. She uncovers telling evidence of scripts and treatments that were abandoned before or during the course of production because of content that might offend foreign markets. Among the fascinating points she discusses is Hollywood's frequent use of imaginary countries as story locales, resulting from a deliberate business policy of avoiding realistic depictions of actual countries. She argues that foreign governments perceived movies not just as articles of trade, but as potential commercial and political emissaries of the United States. Just as Hollywood had to persuade its domestic audiences that its products were morally sound, its domination of world markets depended on its ability to create a culturally and politically acceptable product.
Trade Information Bulletin
Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2556
Book Description
The European Cinema Reader
Author: Catherine Fowler
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415240918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This comprehensive introduction to national cinemas in Europe brings together classic writings by key filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, Luis Buñuel and John Grierson, and critics from Andre Bazin to Peter Wollen.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415240918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This comprehensive introduction to national cinemas in Europe brings together classic writings by key filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, Luis Buñuel and John Grierson, and critics from Andre Bazin to Peter Wollen.
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2556
Book Description
... Condensed List of Publication
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Towards a Sociology of the Cinema (ILS 92)
Author: Ian Charles Jarvie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317854152
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317854152
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publications ...
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publications of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description