Runaway romances
Subtitle: Hollywood's postwar tour of Europe
By: Robert R. Shandley.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781592139453
Subjects: Motion picture industry -- United States -- History; Motion picture industry -- Production and direction -- United States -- History; Motion pictures, American -- Europe -- History; Love in motion pictures; Travel in motion pictures
Description: Examines Hollywood's European travelogue romances from 1947 to 1964, the end of American isolationism and the advent of challenges in Hollywood that made American filmmakers begin filming abroad.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Hollywood's move abroad; title: How Rome saved Hollywood; title: Foreign affairs: metaphors of transatlantic relations; title: Tourists with big cameras: widescreen runaways and class mobility; title: Marrying the enemy: the occupation romance; title: The end of the European romance.