Screening Enlightenment : : Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan /

Screening Enlightenment : : Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan / / Hiroshi Kitamura.

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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 f...

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Kitamura, Hiroshi,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2017
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:The United States in the World
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 15 halftones, 1 chart/graph, 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Thwarted Ambitions
  • Chapter 2. Renewed Intimacies
  • Chapter 3. Contested Terrains
  • Chapter 4. Corporatist Tensions
  • Chapter 5. Fountains of Culture
  • Chapter 6. Presenting Culture
  • Chapter 7. Seeking Enlightenment. The Culture Elites and American Movies
  • Chapter 8. Choosing America. Eiga No tomo and the Making of A New Fan Culture
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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