Cinema and the Wealth of Nations : Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System / Lee Grieveson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grieveson, Lee, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism and mass media.

Motion pictures and globalization.

Motion pictures in propaganda--United States.

Motion pictures in propaganda.

Industrial films--United States.

Industrial films.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.

Motion pictures.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Cinema and the Wealth of Nations explores how media, principally in the form of cinema, was used during the interwar years by elite institutions to establish and sustain forms of liberal political economy beneficial to their interests. It examines the media produced by institutions such as states, corporations, and investment banks, as well as the emergence of a corporate media industry and system supported by state policy and integral to the establishment of a new consumer system. Lee Grieveson shows how media was used to encode liberal political and economic power during the period that saw the United States eclipse Britain as the globally hegemonic nation and the related inauguration of new forms of liberal economic globalization. But this is not a distant history. Cinema and the Wealth of Nations examines a foundational conjuncture in the establishment of media forms and a media system instrumental in, and structural to, the emergence and expansion of a world system that has been-and continues to be-brutally violent, unequal, and destructive.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. The Silver Screen and the Gold Standard

2. The Panama Caper

3. Empire of Liberty

4. Liberty Bonds

5. The State of Extension

6. The Work of Film in the Age of Fordist Mechanization

7. The Pan-American Road to Happiness and Friendship

8. Highways of Empire

9. League of Corporations

10. The Silver Chains of Mimesis

11. The Golden Harvest of the Silver Screen

12. Welfare Media

13. The World of Tomorrow - Today!

Notes

Sources and Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520965348

0520965345

OCLC:

986993853