Cinema's Military Industrial Complex

Haidee Wasson, Lee Grieveson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2018
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29151-5 (ISBN)

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The vast, and vastly influential, American military machine has been aided and abetted by cinema since the earliest days of the medium. The US military realized very quickly that film could be used in myriad ways: training, testing, surveying and mapping, surveillance, medical and psychological management of soldiers, and of course, propaganda. Bringing together a collection of new essays, based on archival research, Wasson and Grieveson seek to cover the complex history of how the military deployed cinema for varied purposes across the the long twentieth century, from the incipient wars of US imperialism in the late nineteenth century to the ongoing War on Terror. This engagement includes cinema created and used by and for the military itself (such as training films), the codevelopment of technologies (chemical, mechanical, and digital), and the use of film (and related mass media) as a key aspect of American "soft power," at home and around the world. A rich and timely set of essays, this volume will become a go-to for scholars interested in all aspects of how the military creates and uses moving-image media.

Haidee Wasson is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. She is the author of Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema and the coeditor of Inventing Film Studies and Useful Cinema. Lee Grieveson is Professor of Media History at University College London. He is the author of Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System and the coeditor of several volumes, including Inventing Film Studies and Empire and Film.

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Acknowledgments

1. The Military’s Cinema Complex
Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson

PART ONE. THE MILITARY’S CINEMA APPARATUS
2. Experimental Viewing Protocols: Film Projection and the American Military
Haidee Wasson
3. Mobilizing the Moving Image: Movie Machines at US Military Bases and Veterans’ Hospitals during World War II
Andrea Kelley
4. Through America’s Eyes: Cinerama and the Cold War
Rebecca Prime
5. An Army of Theaters: Military, Technological, and Industrial Change in US Army Motion-Picture Exhibition
Ross Melnick

PART TWO. STRATEGIES OF VIEWING
6. War in Peace: The American Legion and the Continuing Service of Film
Tom Rice
7. Managing the Trauma of Labor: Military Psychiatric Cinema in World War II
Kaia Scott
8. Th e 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
9. Epistemology of the Checkpoint: Gillo Pontecorvo’s Battle of Algiers and the Doctrine of Counterinsurgency
Vinzenz Hediger

PART THREE. MILITARY-MADE MOVIES
10. Between the Front Lines: Military Training Films, Machine Guns, and the Great War
Florian Hoof
11. From Wartime Instruction to Superpower Cinema: Maintaining the Military-Industrial Documentary
Noah Tsika
12. Framing the Bomb in the West: Th e View from Lookout Mountain
Susan Courtney
13. Occupation, Diplomacy, and the Moving Image: The US Army as Cultural Interlocutor in Korea, 1945–1948
Sueyoung Park-Primiano
14. Shots Made around the World: DASPO’s Documentation of the Vietnam War
James Paasche

PART FOUR. THE MILITARY AND ITS COLLABORATORS
15. War, Media, and the Security of State and Capital
Lee Grieveson
16. Star Testimonies: World War and the Cultural Politics of Authority
Sue Collins
17. “A Treacherous Tightrope”: The Office of War Information, Psychological Warfare, and Film Distribution in Liberated Europe
Alice Lovejoy
18. “A Campaign of Truth”: Marshall Plan Films in Greece
Katerina Loukopoulou

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Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.03.2018
Zusatzinfo	44 b-w
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-520-29151-4 / 0520291514
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29151-5 / 9780520291515
Zustand	Neuware