National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.85 (878 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1548084980 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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His doctoral thesis applied Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky’s Propaganda Model to the contemporary Hollywood film industry. . He has used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain unique government documents since 2010, which has been reported on by Russia Today, Salon, Techdirt, The Mirror, The Express and other outlets. Matthew Alford is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bath in England. In June 2017, a new edition of the film was released at independent venues in twelve countries. About the Author Dr. Alford produced a documentary film of his research, The Writer with No Hands, which premiered at Hot Docs in Canada and won runner-up at the Ammar Popular Film Festival in Iran. In 2014, Dr. His first book, Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy, was published by Pluto Press in 2010 and has since been translated into Chinese.
Enjoyable reading whether you like the movies or hate them Andrew National Security Cinema reveals that much of Hollywood entertainment, while purportedly neutral, actually contains pro-military and pro-corporate messages. The book further explores how the Pentagon and intelligence agencies manage to get these messages into so many films, drawing on a wealth of FOIA releas. Well researched and well written Jenni Ludtke The explanations of script changes and how these changes changed the overall message of the movies was most interesting, as well as examples of why certain films were never made. As well researched as it could be, especially given the lack of information readily available.The one small downside is it could u. "National Security Cinema a Must-Read for Cinephiles and Students of US Government Policy" according to Geopolitics & Empire. The authors have compiled a timely set of case studies based on their FOIA requests clearly outlining the opaque relationship between Hollywood film productions and the Pentagon, CIA and NSA.An entire set of documents covering decades of the relationship between Hollywood and Washington have been squared awa
The latest scholarship has underestimated the size of this operation, in part because the government has gone to considerable lengths to prevent data emerging, especially in the 21st Century, as the practice of government-Hollywood cooperation has escalated and become more aggressive. This is a book about secrecy, militarism, manipulation, and censorship at the heart of the world’s leading democracy—and about those who try to fight them. These forces have suppressed important narratives about: CIA drug trafficking; illegal arms sales; military creation of bio-weapons; the interaction of private armies and oil companies; government treatment of minorities; torture; coups; assassinations, and the failure to prevent 9/11.. National Security Cinema reveals for the first time specific script changes made by the government for political reasons on dozens of blockbusting films and franchises like Transformers, Avatar, Meet the Parents, and The Terminator. Using thousands of pages of documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act National Security Cinema exclusively reveals that the national security state—led by the CIA and Pentagon—has worked on more than eight-hundred Hollywood films and over a thousand network television sho
. His doctoral thesis applied Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky’s Propaganda Model to the contemporary Hollywood film industry. Tom Secker is a private researcher who runs spyculture—the world’s premier online archive about government involvement in the entertainment industry. Alford produced a documentary film of his research, The Writer with No Hands, which premiered at Hot Docs in Canada and won runner-up