Japan's hollywood boycott movement of 1924

Itatsu, Yuko

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“…After the enactment of the 1924 Immigration Act, which banned the immigration of people from Japan, there was an unsuccessful attempt to boycott Hollywood films in Japan, as Yuko Itatsu has shown. 31 Although the term boycott was devised in Victorian Ireland, which was part of the UK at that time, British trades unions in Britain do not seem to have made as great a use of the tool as their American counterparts. Indeed in Ireland boycotting was outlawed in 1881.…”

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Boycotts, buycotts and consumer activism in a global context: An overview

Hawkins

2010

Management & Organizational History

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This introduction has two functions. It provides a historiography of boycotts, buycotts and consumer activism in a global context and it summarizes the articles in this special issue. The historiography shows that the literature has been dominated by American scholars, who have mainly focused on the experience of the United States. In fact boycotts, buycotts and consumer activism have had a global dimension since the term ‘boycott’ was first devised in Victorian Ireland. The introduction synthesizes the American orientated literature with that which looks at the non-American experience. Themes outlined in this introduction are dealt with in more detail in the articles of this special issue.

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Boycotts, buycotts and consumer activism in a global context: An overview

Hawkins

2010

Management & Organizational History

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“…Prominent in this case was the boycott of Hollywood films in 1924 where nationalist groups managed to force a number of film theatres to close their doors. Yet a few chains and importantly the public defied the boycott which ended unsuccessfully (Itatsu 2008). By and large, the general public still favoured US films until the mid-1920s when Japanese film companies began to produce more competitive films.…”

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Declining competitiveness in the film industry: the British experience in Japan, 1910–1923

Ranger

2020

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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Throughout the 1900s, Britain and Japan enjoyed a close diplomatic relationship that was best exemplified by their alliance of twenty years (1903-1923). Cultural ties during this period though were more distant. Despite this complex relationship, British film distributors were active in Japan during the 1910s. However, their competiveness would weaken to the extent that they were eventually displaced by the Hollywood studios by the 1920s. Against this backdrop, Anglo-Japanese relations also became more distant following the end of World War I. The common perception is that the political situation related to the war had a significant impact on the decline of Europe's film industries. This paper examines the factors behind the British film industry's struggles in Japan that seem to correlate with the final chapter of the close political relationship in the late 1910s. It will show that actually the post-World War I political environment had little impact upon the decline of the British presence in the Japanese film market. Rather it was industrial factors ranging from changes in film distribution to the quality of films produced that limited the opportunities for British film companies. Such findings have important implications for Europe's film industries today who are confronted by Hollywood's dominance.

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International films and International Markets: The Globalisation of Hollywood Entertainment, c.1921–1951

Miskell¹

2016

Media History

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The international appeal of Hollywood films through the twentieth century has been a subject of interest to economic and film historians alike. This paper employs some of the methods of the economic historian to evaluate key arguments within the film history literature explaining the global success of American films. Through careful analysis of both existing and newly constructed datasets, the paper examines the extent to which Hollywood's foreign earnings were affected by: film production costs; the extent of global distribution networks; and also the international orientation of the films themselves. The paper finds that these factors influenced foreign earnings in quite distinct ways, and that their relative importance changed over time. The evidence presented here suggests a degree of interaction between the production and distribution arms of the major US film companies in their pursuit of foreign markets that would benefit from further archival-based investigation.

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Japan's hollywood boycott movement of 1924

Cited by 5 publications

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Boycotts, buycotts and consumer activism in a global context: An overview

Boycotts, buycotts and consumer activism in a global context: An overview

Declining competitiveness in the film industry: the British experience in Japan, 1910–1923

International films and International Markets: The Globalisation of Hollywood Entertainment, c.1921–1951

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