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1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
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Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2022. |
| 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? With the release of a vast new trove of internal government documents, the answers have come into sharp focus: the US military has exercised editorial control over thousands of films and television programs. Propelled into a field trip across America, media professor Roger Stahl engages an array of other researchers, bewildered veterans, PR insiders, and industry producers willing to talk. In unsettling 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, the deliberate creation of this other "cinematic universe" is one of the great 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? |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
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Marketing.
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Current affairs.
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Mass media and culture.
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Mass media.
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History, Military.
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Artists.
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Motion pictures.
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History.
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Americans.
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Political science.
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Documentary films.
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Arts.
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Foreign study.
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Digital communications.
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Social sciences.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Stahl, Roger, film director.
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Media Education Foundation (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
13327337 Kanopy |
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