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Global Cinderella: Sabrina (1954), Hollywood, and Postwar Internationalism
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 41, Number 4, Summer 2002
- pp. 27-51
- 10.1353/cj.2002.0016
- Article
- Additional Information
Discourses on U.S. postwar foreign policy have found their way into Hollywood fare, particularly Billy Wilder's Cinderella films, such as Sabrina (1954). These films cast the period's gendered, dominant foreign policy discourses in the terms of the Hollywood Cinderella romance: orphan Europe can be seduced by American assistance.