American Films Abroad

Author : Kerry Segrave
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015043177396

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American Films Abroad by Kerry Segrave Pdf

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.

Author : Gerd Gemünden
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0857450662

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A Foreign Affair by Gerd Gemünden Pdf

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.

Author : Kerry Segrave
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786481620

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Foreign Films in America by Kerry Segrave Pdf

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.

Author : Melvyn Stokes,Richard Maltby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign films
ISBN : 1838710191

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Hollywood Abroad by Melvyn Stokes,Richard Maltby Pdf

"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.

Author : Yves Gambier,Haina Jin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781040010822

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Chinese Films Abroad by Yves Gambier,Haina Jin Pdf

This book examines Chinese films made and shown abroad roughly between the 1920s and the 2020s, from the beginning of the international exchange of the Chinese national film industry to the emergence of the concept of soft power. The periodisation of Chinese cinema(s) does not necessarily match the political periods: on the one hand, the technical development of the film industry and the organisation of translation in China, and on the other hand, official relations with China and translation policies abroad impose different constraints on the circulation of Chinese films. This volume deals with the distribution and translation of films from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora. To this end, the contributors address various issues related to the circulation and distribution of Chinese films, including co- productions, agents of exchange, and modes of translation. The approach is a mixture of socio- cultural and translational methods. The data collected provides, for the first time, a quantitative overview of the circulation of Chinese films in a dozen foreign countries. The book will greatly interest scholars and students of Chinese cinema, translation studies, and China studies.

Author : Ian Charles Jarvie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521415667

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Hollywood's Overseas Campaign by Ian Charles Jarvie Pdf

Hollywood's Overseas Campaign: The North Atlantic Movie Trade, 1920-1950 examines how Hollywood movies became one of the most successful U.S. exports, a phenomenon that began during World War I. Focusing on Canada, the market closest to the United States, on Great Britain, the biggest market, and on the U.S. movie industry itself, Ian Jarvie documents how fear of this mass medium's impact and covetousness toward its profits motivated many nations to resist the cultural invasion and economic drain that Hollywood movies represented.

Author : Tino Balio
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780299247935

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The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973 by Tino Balio Pdf

Largely shut out of American theaters since the 1920s, foreign films such as Open City, Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, Breathless, La Dolce Vita and L’Avventura played after World War II in a growing number of art houses around the country and created a small but influential art film market devoted to the acquisition, distribution, and exhibition of foreign-language and English-language films produced abroad. Nurtured by successive waves of imports from Italy, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Japan, and the Soviet Bloc, the renaissance was kick-started by independent distributors working out of New York; by the 1960s, however, the market had been subsumed by Hollywood. From Roberto Rossellini’s Open City in 1946 to Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris in 1973, Tino Balio tracks the critical reception in the press of such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tony Richardson, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Buñuel, Satyajit Ray, and Milos Forman. Their releases paled in comparison to Hollywood fare at the box office, but their impact on American film culture was enormous. The reception accorded to art house cinema attacked motion picture censorship, promoted the director as auteur, and celebrated film as an international art. Championing the cause was the new “cinephile” generation, which was mostly made up of college students under thirty. The fashion for foreign films depended in part on their frankness about sex. When Hollywood abolished the Production Code in the late 1960s, American-made films began to treat adult themes with maturity and candor. In this new environment, foreign films lost their cachet and the art film market went into decline.

Author : Jens Ulff-Møller
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 1580460860

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Hollywood's Film Wars with France by Jens Ulff-Møller Pdf

It is based on hitherto unstudied documents from these institutions. While European film production was at a standstill after World War I, Hollywood companies flooded the European market with hundreds of films at very low prices."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Richard Maltby,Melvyn Stokes
Publisher : British Film Institute
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015060591842

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Hollywood Abroad by Richard Maltby,Melvyn Stokes Pdf

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Author : Harry Waldman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810828413

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Beyond Hollywood's Grasp by Harry Waldman Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Balance of payments
ISBN : 9781428923256

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Trade in Services by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kerry Segrave
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39076002053077

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American Television Abroad by Kerry Segrave Pdf

This work examines the practices of MGM, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, RKO, Warner Bros., Universal, United Artists, and Columbia; how they came to dominate the film industry and the role the US government has played in advancing their hold.

Author : Tino Balio
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0299230139

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United Artists, Volume 2, 1951–1978 by Tino Balio Pdf

In this second volume of Tino Balio’s history of United Artists, he examines the turnaround of the company in the hands of Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin in the 1950s, when United Artists devised a successful strategy based on the financing and distribution of independent production that transformed the company into an industry leader. Drawing on corporate records and interviews, Balio follows United Artists through its merger with Transamerica in the 1960s and its sale to MGM after the financial debacle of the film Heaven’s Gate. With its attention to the role of film as both an art form and an economic institution, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry is an indispensable study of one company’s fortunes from the 1950s to the 1980s and a clear-eyed analysis of the film industry as a whole. This edition includes an expanded introduction that examines the history of United Artists from 1978 to 2008, as well as an account of Arthur Krim’s attempt to mirror UA’s success at Orion Pictures from 1978 to 1991.

Author : Dominic Strinati,Stephen Wagg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134923694

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Come on Down? by Dominic Strinati,Stephen Wagg Pdf

Come on Down represents an introduction to popular media culture in Britain since 1945. It discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key analytical issues and some of its most important forms and processes. The contributors analyse some of popular culture's leading and most representative expressions such as TV soaps, quizzes and game shows, TV for children, media treatment of the monarchy, Pop Music, Comedy, Advertising, Consumerism and Americanization. The diversity of both subject matter and argument is the most distinctive feature of the collection, making it a much-needed and extremely accessible, interdisciplinary introduction to the study of popular media culture. The contributors, many of them leading figures in their respective areas of study, represent a number of different approaches which themselves reflect the diversity and promise of contemporary theoretical debates. Their studies encompass issues such as the economics of popular culture, its textual complexity and its interpretations by audiences, as well as concepts such as ideology, material culture and postmodernism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Finance
ISBN : MINN:31951D035571940

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Monthly Summary of the Foreign Commerce of the United States by Anonim Pdf