Hollywood Diplomacy: Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations
- Author: Chung, Hye Seung
The book provides a new and fresh understanding of how policies, censorship, and the propaganda machine can influence screenwriters, directors, and production companies. A deft combination of... — More…
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Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Diplomatic Representations in Classical Hollywood
- 1. Censorship as Cultural Resistance: The Chinese Government's "Uplift" of National Images in 1930s Hollywood
- 2. Justified Patricide and (Im)Properly Directed Hatred: Regulating the Representations of Chinese and Japanese in Doolittle Raid Films
- 3. Beyond Propaganda Model: The Pentagon as a Technical Advisor for Brainwashing Films of the Cold War Era
- Part II: The War on Terror, Contemporary Hollywood, and Its Global Discontents
- 4. From Die Another Day to "Another Day": The Anti-007 Movement, Pan-Asian Nationalism, and Protests as Censorship
- 5. The Interview as a Twenty-First-Century Great Dictator? Rethinking Film Regulation and Foreign Relations through the Sony Crisis
- Conclusion: Chinese Censors Return to Hollywood
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index