When Hollywood was enjoying the high box-office receipts of 1946 and its international market was also expanding, the government, seeing cinema as ________, assisted film export through Commerce Department initiatives and diplomatic pressures.
A. serving the purpose of pacifying audiences in unstable regions
B. increasingly too complex for American audiences
C. a reward for countries that had backed the U.S. during the war
D. propaganda for American democracy
Answer: D
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