Hollywood's Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around The World

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. In a history that stretches from Buenos Aires and Tokyo to Johannesburg and Cairo, Ross Melnick considers these movie houses as cultural embassies.

• | By (Author): Ross (Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University) Melnick
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 26, 2022
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 528 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0231201516
• | ISBN-13: 9780231201513