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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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The Motion-picture Industry in Continental Europe in 1931
Author: European Motion-picture Industry
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Trade Information Bulletin
Author: Daily Consular and Trade Reports
Author: Commerce Reports
Author: Selected United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
The World According to Hollywood, 1918-1939
Author: Ruth VaseyPublisher: 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.
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Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2606
Book Description
The Motion-picture Industry in the United Kingdom ...
Author: James Summerville (jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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List of Publications of the Department of Commerce Available for Distribution
Author: United States. Department of CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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