Cinema and the wealth of nations : media, capital, and the liberal world system

Cinema and the wealth of nations : media, capital, and the liberal world system /

"Cinema and the Wealth of Nations explores how media principally in the form of cinema was used during the interwar years by elite institutions to establish and sustain forms of liberal political economy beneficial to their interests. It examines the media produced and circulated by institution...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grieveson, Lee, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Political aspects > United States.
Industrial films > United States.
Motion pictures in propaganda > United States.
Motion pictures and globalization.
Capitalism and mass media.
Industrial films.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Capitalism and mass media
Industrial films
Motion pictures and globalization
Motion pictures in propaganda
Motion pictures > Political aspects
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • The silver screen and the gold standard
  • The Panama Caper
  • Empire of liberty
  • Liberty bonds
  • The State of extension
  • The work of film in the age of Fordist mechanization
  • The Pan-American road to happiness and friendship
  • Highways of Empire
  • League of corporations
  • The silver chains of mimesis
  • The golden harvest of the silver screen
  • Welfare media
  • The world of tomorrow' today!

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