Global Hollywood. (Books in review: seeing the big picture). (book review)
American Prospect, The, December, 2001 by Kafka, Alexander C.
Global Hollywood By Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Maxwell Indiana University Press, 240 pages, $27.95
THOSE WHO CONTEND THAT Hollywood and Washington are two branches of the same cultural conglomerate will find ample evidence in Global Hollywood. The relationship between these two company towns has been volatile at times, but the so-called Washwood alliance has remained intact.
Even before Hollywood was dubbed the "little State Department" in the 1940s, it was in league against Capitol Hill's bogeymen--whether they were communists, ...
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