Cinema's military industrial complex /edited by Haidee Wasson and Lee Grieveson.
Cinema's military industrial complex /edited by Haidee Wasson and Lee Grieveson.
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : the American military and cinema / Experimental viewing protocols : film projection and the American military / Mobilizing the moving image : movie machines at US military bases and veteran hospitals during World War II / Through America's eyes : cinerama and the Cold War / An army of theaters : military, technological, and industrial change in US army motion picture exhibition / War in peace : the American Legion and the continuing service of film / Managing the trauma of labor : films in the military psychiatric apparatus of the second World War / The cinema intelligence apparatus : Gregory Bateson, the Museum of Modern Art Film Library, and the intelligence work of film studies during World War II / Epistemology of the checkpoint : Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers and the doctrine of counterinsurgency / Between the frontlines : military training films, machine guns, and the Great War / From wartime instruction to superpower cinema : maintaining the industrial documentary / Framing the bomb in the West : the view from Lookout Mountain / Occupation, diplomacy, and the moving image : the US army as cultural interlocutor in Korea, 1945-1948 / Shots made around the world : DASPO's documentation of the Vietnam War / War, media, and the security of state and capital / Star testimonies : world war and the cultural politics of authority / "A treacherous tightrope" : the Office of War Information, psychological warfare, and film distribution in liberated Europe / "A campaign of truth" : Marshall Plan films in Greece / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson -- Haidee Wasson -- Andrea Kelley -- Rebecca Prime -- Ross Melnick -- Tom Rice -- Kaia Scott -- Nathaniel Brennan -- Vinzenz Hediger -- Florian Hoof -- Noah Tsika -- Susan Courtney -- S. Park-Primiano -- James Paasche -- Lee Grieveson -- Sue Collins -- Alice Lovejoy -- Katerina Loukopoulou.
"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"--Provided by publisher.
9780520965263
2017041870
Motion picture industry--Military aspects--United States.
War films--History and criticism.--United States
Military cinematography--United States.
Electronic Books.
PN1993 / .C564 2018
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : the American military and cinema / Experimental viewing protocols : film projection and the American military / Mobilizing the moving image : movie machines at US military bases and veteran hospitals during World War II / Through America's eyes : cinerama and the Cold War / An army of theaters : military, technological, and industrial change in US army motion picture exhibition / War in peace : the American Legion and the continuing service of film / Managing the trauma of labor : films in the military psychiatric apparatus of the second World War / The cinema intelligence apparatus : Gregory Bateson, the Museum of Modern Art Film Library, and the intelligence work of film studies during World War II / Epistemology of the checkpoint : Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers and the doctrine of counterinsurgency / Between the frontlines : military training films, machine guns, and the Great War / From wartime instruction to superpower cinema : maintaining the industrial documentary / Framing the bomb in the West : the view from Lookout Mountain / Occupation, diplomacy, and the moving image : the US army as cultural interlocutor in Korea, 1945-1948 / Shots made around the world : DASPO's documentation of the Vietnam War / War, media, and the security of state and capital / Star testimonies : world war and the cultural politics of authority / "A treacherous tightrope" : the Office of War Information, psychological warfare, and film distribution in liberated Europe / "A campaign of truth" : Marshall Plan films in Greece / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson -- Haidee Wasson -- Andrea Kelley -- Rebecca Prime -- Ross Melnick -- Tom Rice -- Kaia Scott -- Nathaniel Brennan -- Vinzenz Hediger -- Florian Hoof -- Noah Tsika -- Susan Courtney -- S. Park-Primiano -- James Paasche -- Lee Grieveson -- Sue Collins -- Alice Lovejoy -- Katerina Loukopoulou.
"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"--Provided by publisher.
9780520965263
2017041870
Motion picture industry--Military aspects--United States.
War films--History and criticism.--United States
Military cinematography--United States.
Electronic Books.
PN1993 / .C564 2018