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02984aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 712F70A4323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211021010114 008 171116t20172017xx a b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1548084980 020 $a 9781548084981 035 $a (OCoLC)1011686744 040 $a NTG $b eng $e rda $c NTG $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCQ $d IaU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PN1993.5.U6 $b A79 2017 082 04 $a 791/.43/0973 $2 23 100 1 $a Alford, Matthew, $e author. 245 10 $a National security cinema : $b the shocking new evidence of government control in Hollywood / $c Matthew Alford and Tom Secker. 264 1 $a [Place of publication not identified] : $b [Matthew Alford and Tom Secker in association with Drum Roll Books], $c [2017] 300 $a 255 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-255) and indexes. 520 $a "This is a book about secrecy, militarism, manipulation, and censorship at the heart of the world's leading democracy--and about those who try to fight them. Using thousands of pages of documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act, National Security Cinema exclusively reveals that the national security state--led by the CIA and Pentagon--has worked on more than eight-hundred Hollywood films and over a thousand network television shows. The latest scholarship has underestimated the size of this operation, in part because the government has gone to considerable lengths to prevent data emerging, especially in the 21st century, as the practice of government-Hollywood cooperation has escalated and become more aggressive. National Security Cinema reveals for the first time specific script changes made by the government for political reasons on dozens of blockbusting films and franchises like Transformers, Avatar, Meet the Parents, and The Terminator. These forces have suppressed important narratives about: CIA drug trafficking; illegal arms sales; military creation of bio-weapons; the interaction of private armies and oil companies; government treatment of minorities; torture; coups; assassinations, and the failure to prevent 9/11"--Back cover. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x Censorship $z United States. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x Political aspects $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government. 650 7 $a Motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027285 650 7 $a Motion pictures $x Censorship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027303 650 7 $a Motion pictures $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027353 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Secker, Tom, $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117022839.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=712F70A4323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search