184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
When this book was originally published in 1987, the American feature film had been colonising the world’s imagination for over 75 years and the book studies that experience in Britain, where American films have always dominated cinema screens, both commercially and intellectually.
The timeframe is the decade after the Second World War: this was a time when the British accommodated themselves... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Americanization and Mass Culture 3. Three Pennyworth of Dark 4. Selling the American Way 5. American Stars and British Audiences 6. The Hollywood Embargo 7. US Cultural Policy in Postwar Britain 8. Britain’s Postwar Film Policy 9. Conclusion: Britain and the Consumer Society
Biography
Paul Swann
