Hollywood Abroad: Audiences and Cultural Exchange

by Stokes, Melvyn; Maltby, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781844570188
• ISBN10: 1844570185
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-27
• Publisher: British Film Institute

Summary

Hollywood Abroad#xA0;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.#xA0; Hollywood Abroad#xA0;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#xA0; The Best Years of Our Lives#xA0;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.#xA0;

Author Biography

Melvyn Stokes teaches American history and film history at University College, London. Richard Maltby is Professor of Screen Studies and Head of Humanities at Flinders University in South Australia.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	iv
Preface	vii
Introduction: 'The Americanisation of the World'	1	(20)
Richard Maltby
1. The Reception of American Films in France, c. 1910-20	21	(14)
Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard and Melvyn Stokes
2. 'A Great American Sensation': Thomas Ince's Civilization at the Palladium, Southampton, 1917	35	(16)
Michael Hammond
3. A Balanced Show: the Australian Picture Theatre Manager at Work in 1922	51	(13)
Anne Bittner
4. Cowboys, Jaffas and Pies: Researching Cinemagoing in the Illawarra	64	(14)
Nancy Huggett and Kate Bowles
5. Hollywood and the Multiple Constituencies of Colonial India	78	(21)
Priya Jaikumar
6. 'Home of American Movies': The Marunouchi Subaruza and the Making of Hollywood's Audiences in Occupied Tokyo, 1946-49	99	(22)
Hiroshi Kitamura
7. The Making of Our America: Hollywood in a Turkish Context	121	(12)
Nezih Erdogan
8. Popular Films and Colonial Audiences in Central Africa	133	(25)
Charles Ambler
9. 'It's the Language of Film!': Young Film Audiences on Hollywood and Europe	158	(19)
Philippe Meers
Index	177