Americanization and its Limits: United Artists in the British Market in the 1930s and 1940s

Motion pictures are silent propaganda, even though not made with that thought in mind at all … Imagine the effect on people … who constantly see flashed on the screen American modes of living, American modes of dressing, and American modes of travel … American automobiles are making terrific inroads on foreign makes of cars [because] the greatest agency for selling American automobiles abroad is the motion picture.1