TY - JOUR
AU - Basinger, Jeanine
AB - 294 Reviews of Books diminished in the late 1920s with the increasing ap­ ning of leaders in the motion picture industry. Vasey's research reveals, too, that Hollywood's concerns about of heroic German characters in the Ameri­ pearance pressure groups and censorship extended well beyond can cinema.) Censors in Hong Kong indicated worry the familiar worries associated with the movies' depic­ about Hollywood's treatment of the British, observing tions of sex and crime. Her focus on foreign markets that the colony was "a small settlement of white men shows that studio executives also worried about the on the fringe of a huge Empire of Asiatics" (p. 148). ways their productions might excite angry reactions Interestingly, in their dealings with Japan, America's concerning religion, politics, capitalism, revolution, film executives considered a way to fight back. When and ethnicity. the Japanese threatened to reduce their intake of Vasey's subject is important. Between the wars, American motion pictures in 1938, U.S. negotiators America's major film companies obtained about thirty­ warned that the absence of a Japanese market could five percent of their gross revenues from the foreign give U.S. filmmakers an opportunity to feature Japa­ market. Hollywood's sensitivity to British interests had nese 
TI - Robert Brent Toplin. History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 1996. Pp. xii, 267. Cloth $34.95, paper $14.95
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/103.1.294
DA - 1998-02-01
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SP - 294
EP - 295
VL - 103
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