Lee Grieveson & Haidee Wasson 
Cinema’s Military Industrial Complex [EPUB ebook] 

The vast and influential American military has been aided and abetted by cinema since the earliest days of the medium. The army, navy, and air force put films to work in myriad ways, enlisting them to entertain, train, and heal soldiers as well as to propagandize, strategize, spy, map, and develop weapons, from rifles to atomic bombs. Presenting new essays based on archival research,
Cinema’s Military Industrial Complex addresses the relationship of military cinema to Hollywood, technological innovation, new modes of filmmaking, unique film styles and genres, and the rise of American soft power across the long twentieth century. This rich and timely volume is essential for scholars interested in the military’s use of media and the exercise of influence within and beyond American borders.

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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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Haidee Wasson is Professor of Cinema Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of Museum Movies 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 Policing Cinema and Cinema and the Wealth of Nations and the coeditor of several volumes, including Inventing Film Studies and Empire and Film.