Hollywood's Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World
By Ross Melnick
Hardcover
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By Ross Melnick
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Winner, 2024 Culbert Family Book Prize, International Association for Media and History
Winner - 2022 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association
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. These theaters aimed to provide a quintessentially “American” experience. Outfitted with American technology and accoutrements, they allowed loca...
Winner - 2022 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association
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. These theaters aimed to provide a quintessentially “American” experience. Outfitted with American technology and accoutrements, they allowed loca...






















