In Secrecy's Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema 1941-1979During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS to produce training, reconnaissance and propaganda films. This wartime bond continued into the post-war period, when a number of studios produced films advocating the creation of a permanent peacetime successor to the OSS: what became the Central Intelligence Agency. By the 1960s however, Hollywood's increasingly irreverent attitude towards the CIA reflected a growing public anxiety about excessive US government secrecy. In Secrecy's Shadow provides the first comprehensive history of the birth and development of Hollywood's relationship with American intelligence. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, synthesizing literatures and methodologies from diplomatic history, film studies and cultural theory, and it presents new perspectives on a number of major filmmakers including Darryl F. Zanuck, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford. Based on research conducted in over 20 archival repositories across the United States and UK, In Secrecy's Shadow explores the revolution in the relationship between Hollywood and the secret state, from unwavering trust and cooperation to extreme scepticism and paranoia, and demonstrates the debilitating effects of secrecy upon public trust in government and the stability of national memory. |
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... War: Cinematic Intelligence and the Office of Strategic Services John Ford's Navy Weaponising Cinema Hollywood's Intelligence Archive Wild Bill Donovan and the Origins ... Cold War Dangerous Liaisons: The CIA in Hollywood Joseph Mankiewicz's.
... War: Cinematic Intelligence and the Office of Strategic Services John Ford's Navy Weaponising Cinema Hollywood's Intelligence Archive Wild Bill Donovan and the Origins ... Cold War Dangerous Liaisons: The CIA in Hollywood Joseph Mankiewicz's.
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... Cold War Satire North by Northwest (1959) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and TV Spy Satire in the 1960s Parody Turns Political in The President's Analyst (1967) 5. Secrecy, Conspiracy, Cinema and the CIA in the 1970s Scorpio (1973) and CIA ...
... Cold War Satire North by Northwest (1959) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and TV Spy Satire in the 1960s Parody Turns Political in The President's Analyst (1967) 5. Secrecy, Conspiracy, Cinema and the CIA in the 1970s Scorpio (1973) and CIA ...
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... Cold War the CIA became 'a symbol of public unknowing'.8 Its fictional representation in the post-war period offered a kind of barometer at any given moment of public anxieties about secrecy and its impact upon 'factual' discourses or ...
... Cold War the CIA became 'a symbol of public unknowing'.8 Its fictional representation in the post-war period offered a kind of barometer at any given moment of public anxieties about secrecy and its impact upon 'factual' discourses or ...
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... Cold War predecessors. Yet for filmmakers in the immediate post-war period there were a number of good reasons to privilege the US government's perspective. Some of those reasons were responses to repressive or censorious tendencies ...
... Cold War predecessors. Yet for filmmakers in the immediate post-war period there were a number of good reasons to privilege the US government's perspective. Some of those reasons were responses to repressive or censorious tendencies ...
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... Cold War foreign policy and often they deliberately avoided mention of the Cold War altogether, their departure from the semi-documentaries' statesourced method of historical representation was important. It marked a decisive cleavage ...
... Cold War foreign policy and often they deliberately avoided mention of the Cold War altogether, their departure from the semi-documentaries' statesourced method of historical representation was important. It marked a decisive cleavage ...
Contents
Hollywoods History of the OSS | |
The CIA and Hollywood in the Early Cold | |
The Death of the Big Lie and the Emergence of Postmodern | |
Secrecy Conspiracy Cinema and the CIA in the 1970s | |
Conclusion | |
Select Filmography | |
Film and TV Index | |
General Index | |
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