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Like Britain,Europe spent the years just afterWorld WarⅠin thrall toHollywood.Moreover,as in the British case,cultural elites and conservativepoliticians alike denounced Hollywood as a rapacious monster,a corruptinginfluence,and ,indeed,as an empire.Nonetheless,Britain’s narrative of theEntertainment Empire was unique for two reasons.First,Britain found itselfparticularly susceptible to the influence of American English,initiallyencountered in the captions of silent films and later on the soundtracks of thetalking cinema.Second,American’s status as a former British colony turnedrival empire intensified the assault on Britain’s imperial self-image.Indeed,reactions against Hollywood drew strength from the assessments of growingAmerican military and economic power on the world stage.Even more tellingly,accountsof American cinematic prowess implicated racial ideology,suggesting that theAmericans might take control of the meaning of whiteness.As early as thetwenties,Hollywood’s film presence throughout Britain and its empire promptedgrim announcements of colonization in reverse,long before thepost-World War Ⅱ period with which such images are most often associated.
Like Britain,Europe spent the years just afterWorld WarⅠin thrall toHollywood.Moreover,as in the British case,cultural elites and conservativepoliticians alike denounced Hollywood as a rapacious monster,a corruptinginfluence,and ,indeed,as an empire.Nonetheless,Britain’s narrative of theEntertainment Empire was unique for two reasons.First,Britain found itselfparticularly susceptible to the influence of American English,initiallyencountered in the captions of silent films and later on the soundtracks of thetalking cinema.Second,American’s status as a former British colony turnedrival empire intensified the assault on Britain’s imperial self-image.Indeed,reactions against Hollywood drew strength from the assessments of growingAmerican military and economic power on the world stage.Even more tellingly,accountsof American cinematic prowess implicated racial ideology,suggesting that theAmericans might take control of the meaning of whiteness.As early as thetwenties,Hollywood’s film presence throughout Britain and its empire promptedgrim announcements of colonization in reverse,long before thepost-World War Ⅱ period with which such images are most often associated.
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