Cultural Capital: Ross Melnick Explores the History of Hollywood’s Global Cinemas in “Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World”

How has Hollywood exported American values, including its ideals of consumerism and luxury, to the rest of the world? Through American movies, of course, but, more surprisingly, as discussed by Ross Melnick in his new book, through global American movie theaters. Melnick, a professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa […]

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