Military influence in cinema

[Robbie Robertson]

Matthew Alford is a teaching fellow at Bath university UK, in politics with research interests in the relationship between screen entertainment and political power. His new documentary "Theaters Of War" digs deep into a vast new trove of recently released internal government documents about the government influence in Hollywood. Matt discovers how the military and CIA have pushed official narratives while systematically scrubbing scripts of war crimes, corruption, racism, sexual assault, coups, assassinations, and torture. From The Longest Day to Lone Survivor, Iron Man to Iron Chef, and James Bond to Jack Ryan, Theaters of War uncovers an alternative “cinematic universe” that stands as one of the great Pentagon PR coups of our time.
 

Out Of The Blank #1195 - Matthew Alford

I posted it in the JFK section I did ask a few questions about the CIA influence in media 

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6 hours ago, Robbie Robertson said:

Matthew Alford is a teaching fellow at Bath university UK, in politics with research interests in the relationship between screen entertainment and political power. His new documentary "Theaters Of War" digs deep into a vast new trove of recently released internal government documents about the government influence in Hollywood. Matt discovers how the military and CIA have pushed official narratives while systematically scrubbing scripts of war crimes, corruption, racism, sexual assault, coups, assassinations, and torture. From The Longest Day to Lone Survivor, Iron Man to Iron Chef, and James Bond to Jack Ryan, Theaters of War uncovers an alternative “cinematic universe” that stands as one of the great Pentagon PR coups of our time.
 

Out Of The Blank #1195 - Matthew Alford

I posted it in the JFK section I did ask a few questions about the CIA influence in media 

Thanks for sharing this, Robbie. Unfortunately the masses can’t see that movies are are one of the most potent forms of propaganda. If cinema mostly depicts war/invasions as honourable and the CIA as the good guys, saving the day, the masses will leave with that impression. In recent years we have seen a shift from the psychology demonstrated pre-Platoon (which Oliver Stone found it very hard to get made). Back then the USA were depicted as valiant heroes which served military recruitment and helped manufacture consent for future wars. The shift is that we now have a lot of deep state or movies that involve institutional corruption but, they are laced with a virtuous character, a hero archetype. For example there can be evil players in the CIA but, on screen Di Caprio or Matt Damon saves the day. We leave the cinema with that warm satisfied feeling. Is this any different to Goebbels work for the Third Reich? Perhaps now its more sophisticated and subversive. 
 

The brain switches from beta waves to alpha waves when watching television. Alpha waves are measure in the brain when a person is under hypnosis. We take in so much without even realising it and suddenly our ideas are shaped. 
 

PS Haven’t had time to watch the video.