World According To Hollywood,1918-1939

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-85989-554-5
Verlag: University of Exeter Press

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: Exeter Studies in Film History

The World According to Hollywood examines the world-wide influence of the American film industry during its golden age — the 1920s and 1930s — and investigates the business policies that shaped the fictional universe of Hollywood movies. Vasey shows how the industry's self-censorship shaped the content of the films to make them saleable to as many foreign markets as possible and in the process created an idiosyncratic world on screen that was glamorous and exotic, but peculiarly narrow in scope.

Krazna-Krauz Moving Image Book Award 1997

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vasey, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Image making - managing the expansion of the motion picture industry; the open door - the industry's public relations; sound effects - technology and adaptation; sophisticated responses and displaced persons - content regulation and the studio relations committee; why is Mr Brown eating spaghetti? - content regulation and the production code administration; diplomatic representations - accommodating the foreign market; the big picture - the politics of "industry policy".

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Vasey is lecturer in Screen Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide. She is a contributor to The Oxford History of World Cinema, Movie Censorship and American Culture and Modern American Culture: An Introduction.