Hollywood Made in China [Paperback]

Winner of the Chinese American Librarian Association Best Book Award
Winner of the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Award
Montaigne Medal Finalist, Eric Hoffer Awards
2018 Frank Luther Mott - Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism & Mass Communication Research Award Finalist

China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 ignited a race to capture new global media audiences. Hollywood moguls began courting Chinese investors to create entertainment on an international scale—from behemoth theme parks to blockbuster films.Hollywood Made in Chinaexamines these new collaborations, where the distinctions between Hollywood’s “dream factory” and Xi Jinping's "Chinese Dream" of global influence become increasingly blurred. With insightful policy analysis, ethnographic research, and interviews with CEOs, directors, and film workers in Beijing, Shanghai, and Los Angeles, Aynne Kokas offers an unflinching look at China’s new role in the global media industries. A window into the partnerships with Chinese corporations that now shape Hollywood, this book will captivate anyone who consumes commercial media in the twenty-first century.

Aynne Kokasis Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and a nonresident scholar in Chinese media at the Baker Institute of Public Policy at Rice University.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
1. Policy and Superheroes: China and Hollywood in Sino-US Relations
2. Hollywood’s China: Mickey Mouse, Kung Fu Panda, and the Rise of Sino-US Brandscapes
3. Soft Power Plays: How Chinese Film Policy Influences Hollywood
4. Whispers in the Gallery: How Industry Forums Build Sino-US Media Collaboration
5. Compradors: How Above-the-Line Workers Brand Sino-US Film Production
6. Farm Labor, Film Labor: How Blsß