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Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World by Ross Melnick

To understand the impact movies and in particularly the American movie industry has had  since the 1920s, not just the messages, directors or entertaining subjects of the films have been important, but also the manner how the product film has been presented all over the world. For that purpose, the well-known website Cinema Treasures has […]

Broadcasting Hollywood: The Struggle Over Feature Films on Early TV by Jennifer Porst (2021)

Even if the topic of Porst’s book, with regard to today’s video watching agenda that includes streaming media, Netflix, or any Internet-based platform consulted to watch movies, documentaries or series, may look a bit outdated at first sight, Broadcasting Hollywood actually is a highly interesting study, as it chronicles how we, as audiences, originally “learned” […]