Bibliograph

Theaters of war, how the pentagon and CIA took Hollywood, The Media Education Foundation presents a film by Roger Stahl

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Theaters of war, how the pentagon and CIA took Hollywood, The Media Education Foundation presents a film by Roger Stahl

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Theaters of war

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

1331577023

Responsibility statement

The Media Education Foundation presents a film by Roger Stahl

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Sub title

how the pentagon and CIA took Hollywood

Summary

If you've seen Top Gun or Transformers, you may have wondered: Does all of that military machinery on screen come with strings attached? Does the military actually get a crack at the script? Theaters of War digs deep into a vast new trove of recently released internal government documents to bring the answers to these questions into sharp focus. Traveling across America, filmmaker and media scholar Roger Stahl engages an array of other researchers, bewildered veterans, PR insiders, and industry producers willing to talk. In unsettling and riveting detail, he discovers how the military and CIA have pushed official narratives while systematically scrubbing scripts of war crimes, corruption, racism, sexual assault, coups, assassinations, and torture. From The Longest Day to Lone Survivor, Iron Man to Iron Chef, and James Bond to Jack Ryan, Theaters of War uncovers an alternative "cinematic universe" that stands as one of the great Pentagon PR coups of our time. As these activities gain new public scrutiny, new questions arise: How have they managed to fly under the radar for so long? And where do we go from here?

Technique

live action

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Contributor