Tom Secker
Author
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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? Theaters of War digs deep into a vast new trove of recently released internal government documents to bring the answers to these questions into sharp focus. Traveling across America, filmmaker and media scholar Roger Stahl engages an array of other researchers,...
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Language
Français
Description
Bien installé dans une salle obscure ou dans son canapé, tout le monde a déjà été exposé à une production hollywoodienne. Mais derrière l'écran se cache parfois l'influence du lobby militaire : Pentagone et CIA.
De fait, ils fournissent du matériel, des véhicules, des lieux de tournage et même des figurants pour de nombreux films comme Top Gun, certains Terminator, Avatar, Hulk et Iron Man. En contrepartie, ils imposent des modifications...
Author
Language
English
Description
Superheroes, Movies, and the State sets a new standard for exploring the government-Hollywood relationship as it persuasively documents the critical role different government agencies have played in shaping characters, stories, and even the ideas behind the hottest entertainment products. Jenkins and Secker cover a wide range of US government and quasi-governmental agencies who act to influence the content of superhero movies, including the Department...