Cinema's Military Industrial Complex

• Author(s): Haidee Wasson, Lee Grieveson,
• Publisher: Univ of California Press
• Pages: 379
• ISBN_10: 0520291506
  ISBN_13: 9780520291508
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Industries / Entertainment , History / Military / United States , Performing Arts / General , Performing Arts / Film / General , Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism , Performing Arts / Film / Genres / Action & Adventure , Performing Arts / Film / Genres / Documentary , Performing Arts / Film / Genres / Historical , Political Science / Propaganda , Technology & Engineering / Telecommunications ,

Description:... Introduction : the American military and cinema / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson -- Experimental viewing protocols : film projection and the American military / Haidee Wasson -- Mobilizing the moving image : movie machines at US military bases and veteran hospitals during World War II / Andrea Kelley -- Through America's eyes : cinerama and the Cold War / Rebecca Prime -- An army of theaters : military, technological, and industrial change in US army motion picture exhibition / Ross Melnick -- War in peace : the American Legion and the continuing service of film / Tom Rice -- Managing the trauma of labor : films in the military psychiatric apparatus of the second World War / Kaia Scott -- The cinema intelligence apparatus : Gregory Bateson, the Museum of Modern Art Film Library, and the intelligence work of film studies during World War II / Nathaniel Brennan -- Epistemology of the checkpoint : Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers and the doctrine of counterinsurgency / Vinzenz Hediger -- Between the frontlines : military training films, machine guns, and the Great War / Florian Hoof -- From wartime instruction to superpower cinema : maintaining the industrial documentary / Noah Tsika -- Framing the bomb in the West : the view from Lookout Mountain / Susan Courtney -- Occupation, diplomacy, and the moving image : the US army as cultural interlocutor in Korea, 1945-1948 / S. Park-Primiano -- Shots made around the world : DASPO's documentation of the Vietnam War / James Paasche -- War, media, and the security of state and capital / Lee Grieveson -- Star testimonies : world war and the cultural politics of authority / Sue Collins -- "A treacherous tightrope" : the Office of War Information, psychological warfare, and film distribution in liberated Europe / Alice Lovejoy -- "A campaign of truth" : Marshall Plan films in Greece / Katerina Loukopoulou