How Long to Read Hollywood's Embassies

How Long Does it Take to Read Hollywood's Embassies?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Hollywood's Embassies by Ross Melnick

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Winner - 2022 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association Beginning in the 1920s, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie theaters that were owned and operated by the major American film companies. These theaters aimed to provide a quintessentially “American” experience. Outfitted with American technology and accoutrements, they allowed local audiences to watch American films in an American-owned cinema in a distinctly American way. In a history that stretches from Buenos Aires and Tokyo to Johannesburg and Cairo, Ross Melnick considers these movie houses as cultural embassies. He examines how the exhibition of Hollywood films became a constant flow of political and consumerist messaging, selling American ideas, products, and power, especially during fractious eras. Melnick demonstrates that while Hollywood’s marketing of luxury and consumption often struck a chord with local audiences, it was also frequently tone-deaf to new social, cultural, racial, and political movements. He argues that the story of Hollywood’s global cinemas is not a simple narrative of cultural and industrial indoctrination and colonization. Instead, it is one of negotiation, booms and busts, successes and failures, adoptions and rejections, and a precursor to later conflicts over the spread of American consumer culture. A truly global account, Hollywood’s Embassies shows how the entanglement of worldwide movie theaters with American empire offers a new way of understanding film history and the history of U.S. soft power.

How long is Hollywood's Embassies?

Hollywood's Embassies by Ross Melnick is 372 pages long, and a total of 93,744 words.

This makes it 126% the length of the average book. It also has 115% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Hollywood's Embassies Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 32 minutes to read Hollywood's Embassies aloud.

What Reading Level is Hollywood's Embassies?

Hollywood's Embassies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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