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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... Foreign Policy, 1947–2001. This book is the culmination of years of research I conducted while on that project. My colleagues on the project were generous with their time and patient with their support of a younger and less- experienced ...
... Foreign Policy, 1947–2001. This book is the culmination of years of research I conducted while on that project. My colleagues on the project were generous with their time and patient with their support of a younger and less- experienced ...
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... foreign policy. The CIA is therefore an emblematic institution. It resonates in the American imagination for reasons more abstract and ideational in nature than its bricksand- mortar 'reality'. This is not to say that the CIA as public ...
... foreign policy. The CIA is therefore an emblematic institution. It resonates in the American imagination for reasons more abstract and ideational in nature than its bricksand- mortar 'reality'. This is not to say that the CIA as public ...
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... foreign policy were concerned, gave way to discord and dissent. Culturally, as Melley argues, government secrecy, and the attendant public scepticism towards consensus history and the 'official story' that it provoked, was the ...
... foreign policy were concerned, gave way to discord and dissent. Culturally, as Melley argues, government secrecy, and the attendant public scepticism towards consensus history and the 'official story' that it provoked, was the ...
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... foreign policy and often they deliberately avoided mention of the Cold War altogether, their departure from the semi- documentaries' state- sourced method of historical representation was important. It marked a decisive cleavage away ...
... foreign policy and often they deliberately avoided mention of the Cold War altogether, their departure from the semi- documentaries' state- sourced method of historical representation was important. It marked a decisive cleavage away ...
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... relations between elements of the whole are not exterior to the whole, as is the case with transitive causality, nor are ... foreign policy, and vice versa, neither can the 'real' CIA and its place and meaning within American history be ...
... relations between elements of the whole are not exterior to the whole, as is the case with transitive causality, nor are ... foreign policy, and vice versa, neither can the 'real' CIA and its place and meaning within American history be ...
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