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In Secrecy's Shadow : The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema 1941-1979 / Simon Willmetts.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Traditions in American Cinema : TACPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) : 20 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748692996
  • 9780748693009
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 351.09 22/ger
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Facts of War: Cinematic Intelligence and the Office of Strategic Services -- 2. 'What is Past is Prologue': Hollywood's History of the OSS and the Establishment of the CIA -- 3. Quiet Americans: The CIA and Hollywood in the Early Cold War -- 4. The Death of the 'Big Lie' and the Emergence of Postmodern Incredulity in the Spy Cinema of the 1960s -- 5. Secrecy, Conspiracy, Cinema and the CIA in the 1970s -- Conclusion -- Select Filmography -- Bibliography -- Film and TV Index -- General Index
Summary: A comprehensive, archivally researched history of the CIA and Hollywood cinemaDuring 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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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Facts of War: Cinematic Intelligence and the Office of Strategic Services -- 2. 'What is Past is Prologue': Hollywood's History of the OSS and the Establishment of the CIA -- 3. Quiet Americans: The CIA and Hollywood in the Early Cold War -- 4. The Death of the 'Big Lie' and the Emergence of Postmodern Incredulity in the Spy Cinema of the 1960s -- 5. Secrecy, Conspiracy, Cinema and the CIA in the 1970s -- Conclusion -- Select Filmography -- Bibliography -- Film and TV Index -- General Index

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A comprehensive, archivally researched history of the CIA and Hollywood cinemaDuring 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)