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A source that I found on the reading was about a book Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies. The article talked about how foreign movies were the dominant factor prior to World War I. Following the war the tide was reversed. As Kerry Segrave tells the reader, “The struggle for foreign film producers to increase their screen presence in the United States has been ongoing for close to a century.” Companies like Lumiere and Pathe Freres led the way in the export of films to America, but like many European industries that had to rebuild after WWI, the film industry was no exception. The book talks about the various ways foreign film producers tried to overcome these barriers, only to find themselves in the same situation some ninety years later.

Works Cited

Ernhart, E (2005). “ Foreign Films In America (review)”: Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies - Volume 35.1 (2005), pp. 83-85 http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/film_and_history/v035/35.1erhardt.html