Overseas Theaters
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Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Military psychiatry
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Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Military psychiatry
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Author : Robert S. Anderson
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Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Combat
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Author : Ross Melnick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0231554133
Winner - 2022 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association Beginning in the 1920s, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie theaters that were owned and operated by the major American film companies. These theaters aimed to provide a quintessentially “American” experience. Outfitted with American technology and accoutrements, they allowed local audiences to watch American films in an American-owned cinema in a distinctly American way. In a history that stretches from Buenos Aires and Tokyo to Johannesburg and Cairo, Ross Melnick considers these movie houses as cultural embassies. He examines how the exhibition of Hollywood films became a constant flow of political and consumerist messaging, selling American ideas, products, and power, especially during fractious eras. Melnick demonstrates that while Hollywood’s marketing of luxury and consumption often struck a chord with local audiences, it was also frequently tone-deaf to new social, cultural, racial, and political movements. He argues that the story of Hollywood’s global cinemas is not a simple narrative of cultural and industrial indoctrination and colonization. Instead, it is one of negotiation, booms and busts, successes and failures, adoptions and rejections, and a precursor to later conflicts over the spread of American consumer culture. A truly global account, Hollywood’s Embassies shows how the entanglement of worldwide movie theaters with American empire offers a new way of understanding film history and the history of U.S. soft power.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee Under S. Res. 74 on Overseas Information Programs of the U.S.
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Page : 1692 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Educational exchanges
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Author : United States. Bureau of International Commerce
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Page : pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Commerce
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Page : 736 pages
File Size : 41,73 MB
Release : 1948
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 1947
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : United States. Army Service Forces
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 1943
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Author : United States. Military History, Office of the Chief of
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Page : 876 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 1954
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Author : United States. Department of State
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Page : 1564 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 1944
Category : United States
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