.Literatuuropgave: p. 433-442. Met reg. Focusing on Canada, on Great Britain and on the U.S. movie industry itself, the author describes how fear of it's impact and covetousness towards its profits motivated many nations to resist the cultural invasion and economic drain that Hollywood movies represented. The motives turned out to be the threat to power of specific groups who considered themselves entitled to some of the profits. Meanwhile the efforts of these groups to create a domestic film industry and ban the Hollywood movies fail ed because of lack of capital, mismanagement and audience resistance.