Some Big Bourgeois Brothel - Contexts for France's Culture Wars with Hollywood (Paperback)

Examining Franco-American cinema relations, this book details France's periodic attempts to curb Hollywood's access to the European market. It focuses on the French influence on--and the American reaction to--the European Unions Television Without Frontiers directive and the dramatic crisis-ridden talks during the Uruguay round of the final 1993 GATT negotiation. These climactic events, which nearly led to a breakdown in world trade in intellectual property, are set in the context of commercial and legal history and the two countries' competing concepts of art and commerce.