Screening enlightenment : Hollywood and the cultural reconstruction of defeated Japan /
During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945-1952), U.S. film studios--in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers--launched an ambitious campaign to extend their power and influence in a historically rich but challenging film market. In this...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2010
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| Series: | United States in the world.
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Table of Contents:
- Thwarted ambitions : Hollywood and Japan before the Second World War
- Renewed intimacies : Hollywood, war, and occupation
- Contested terrains : occupation censorship and Japanese cinema
- Corporatist tensions : Hollywood versus the U.S. occupation
- Fountains of culture : Hollywood's marketing in defeated Japan
- Presenting culture : the exhibition of American movies
- Seeking enlightenment : the culture elites and American movies
- Choosing America : Eiga no tomo and the making of a new fan.
