Hollywood’s Overseas Campaign

A history of how the American film industry succeeded in dominating the film markets of Canada and Great Britain.

List of tables and figures; Preface; General introduction; Part I. A Small Market - Canada: 1. The White Report and the trial of Famous Players, 1932; 2. Before the White Report, 1920¿1930; 3. After the White Report, 1932¿1950; Part II. America's Biggest Foreign Market: The United Kingdom: 4. The road to a British quota system, 1920¿1927; 5. Trade policy, politics and the 1938 act, 1928¿1938; 6. War and currency crisis, 1939¿1945; 7. Trial of strength: Hollywood's boycott of the British market, 1947¿1948; 8. Postwar measures: the boycott and its aftermath, 1945¿1950; Part III. The US Motion Picture Industry and its Overseas System: 9. The MPPDA and the beginnings of organization, 1920¿1922; 10. Machinery without policy, 1923¿1932; 11. The system in operation, 1933¿1941; 12. Protecting the system in wartime, 1942¿1945; 13. Adapting the system to peace, 1945¿1950; Epilogue; References; Filmography; Index of names; Index of subjects.