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CHAPTER 11 CARIBBEAN DREAMS, 1929– 1973 Hollywood Cinemas in Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad

  • Ross Melnick
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  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
  4. INTRODUCTION “Shop Windows,” “Cultural Embassies,” and Hollywood’s Global Exhibition 1
  5. PART I EUROPE When Expansion Was Paramount (1923– 1993) “Shop Window” Cinemas and the European Expansion of U.S. Film Exhibitors
  6. CHAPTER 1 HOLLYWOOD’S BRITISH INVASION AND THE BATTLE OF BIRMINGHAM, 1919– 1929 27
  7. CHAPTER 2 HOLLYWOOD’S EUROPEAN ADVENTURE, 1925– 1941 48
  8. CHAPTER 3 A NEW BATTLEGROUND U.S. Exhibitors Under Nazi Occupation, 1941– 1945 64
  9. CHAPTER 4 POSTWAR EUROPE AND THE LEGACY OF HOLLYWOOD CINEMAS, 1945– 1993 76
  10. PART II AUSTRALASIA Banking on Australasia (1930– 1982) Global Banks and U.S. Cinema Ownership in Australia and New Zealand
  11. CHAPTER 5 FOX CHASES HOYTS U.S. Cinema Ownership in Australia, 1930– 1936 91
  12. CHAPTER 6 THE FOX CHASE IN NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA, 1936– 1946 116
  13. CHAPTER 7 HOLLYWOOD AND AUSTRALASIAN CINEMAS, 1946– 1982 129
  14. PART III LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Hollywood in Cinelandia (1927– 1973) U.S. Cinemas and Local Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean
  15. CHAPTER 8 CINE METROS Y CINE PARAMOUNTS, 1926– 1941 MGM and Paramount’s Latin American Shop Window Cinemas 145
  16. CHAPTER 9 PROP(AGANDA) WINDOW CINEMAS, 1933– 1945 Ufa, Hollywood, and the Battle for Hearts and Minds Through South American Cinemas During World War II 160
  17. CHAPTER 10 HOLLYWOOD CINEMA EXPANSION IN POSTWAR SOUTH AMERICA, 1945– 1973 168
  18. CHAPTER 11 CARIBBEAN DREAMS, 1929– 1973 Hollywood Cinemas in Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad 182
  19. PART IV MIDDLE EAST Hollywood’s Muddle East (1925– 1982) Political Change in Egypt and Israel and the Consequences for Hollywood’s Middle Eastern Cinemas
  20. CHAPTER 12 BUILDINGS, BALLYHOO, AND BOYCOTTS IN EGYPT, 1925– 1947 Alternating Realities at Hollywood’s Egyptian Cinemas 207
  21. CHAPTER 13 NO MEETING IN THE MIDDLE, 1947– 1956 Hollywood Cinemas, Egyptian Revolution, and Israeli Independence 225
  22. CHAPTER 14 AFTER THE REVOLUTION, 1957– 1982 Twentieth Century- Fox, Egypt, and Israel 248
  23. PART V AFRICA An “Unhappy Image of the United States Before an African Population” (1932– 1975) Race, Industry, and Rebellion at Hollywood’s African Cinemas
  24. CHAPTER 15 MGM AND THE “UNCROWNED KING OF SOUTH AFRICA,” 1932– 1937 Hollywood Shop Window Cinemas in a Bitterly Protected Market 267
  25. CHAPTER 16 FOX HUNTING ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT, 1937– 1956 Twentieth Century- Fox and the Struggle for Control of African Cinemas 279
  26. CHAPTER 17 A “ROYAL” MESS Racial Strife in Colonial Zimbabwe, the Struggle for Independence in Postcolonial Kenya, and the End of Hollywood’s Control of South African Cinemas, 1959– 1975 293
  27. PART VI ASIA Eastern Promises (1927– 2013) Hollywood’s Cinemas in China, India, Japan, and the Philippines
  28. CHAPTER 18 BENSHI AND BALLYHOO, 1927– 1973 Hollywood’s Shop Window Cinemas in Japan and the Philippines 331
  29. CHAPTER 19 JOINING THE GLOBAL METRO CUB CLUB, 1936– 1973 MGM and Fox’s Shop Window Cinemas in India 346
  30. CHAPTER 20 CHINA AS HOLLYWOOD’S FINAL FRONTIER, 1946– 2013 Hollywood’s Chinese Cinemas and the End of Hollywood’s Exhibition Empires 361
  31. EPILOGUE Global Exhibition Flows in Reverse Before the Pandemic, 2013– 2019 380
  32. NOTES 393
  33. INDEX 469
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