The CIA in Hollywood

How the Agency Shapes Film and Television

av Tricia Jenkins (inbunden, 2012)

Pris: 410:-

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar.

Fri frakt vid beställning på minst 99 kr för privatpersoner i Sverige -

Välj format:
Inbunden
Häftad

What's your impression of the CIA? A bumbling agency that can't protect its own spies? A rogue organization prone to covert operations and assassinations? Or a dedicated public service that advances the interests of the United States? Astute TV and movie viewers may have noticed that the CIA's image in popular media has spanned this entire range, with a decided shift to more positive portrayals in recent years. But what very few people know is that the Central Intelligence Agency has been actively engaged in shaping the content of film and television, especially since it established an entertainment industry liaison program in the mid-1990s. The CIA in Hollywood offers the first full-scale investigation of the relationship between the Agency and the film and television industries. Tricia Jenkins draws on numerous interviews with the CIA's public affairs staff, operations officers, and historians, as well as with Hollywood technical consultants, producers, and screenwriters who have worked with the Agency, to uncover the nature of the CIA's role in Hollywood. In particular, she delves into the Agency's and its officers' involvement in the production of The Agency, In the Company of Spies, Alias, The Recruit, The Sum of All Fears, Enemy of the State, Syriana, The Good Shepherd, and more. Her research reveals the significant influence that the CIA now wields in Hollywood and raises important and troubling questions about the ethics and legality of a government agency using popular media to manipulate its public image.

(Bookdata)

Passar bra ihop

De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt Surveillance Tradecraft (häftad) av Peter Jenkins

Pris för båda:

804:-Lägg i varukorgen

Kundrecensioner

Bli först att betygsätta och recensera boken The CIA in Hollywood - du kan vinna 200 kr varje månad i tävlingen "Månadens recension".

Fler böcker inom

Inbunden (hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 175
Utg.datum: 2012-04-03
Förlag: University of Texas Press
Illustrationer: 2 figures, 3 tables
Dimensioner: 228 x 158 x 19 mm
Vikt: 444 g
Antal komponenter: 1
ISBN: 9780292728615

Recensioner i media

"In a fascinating, highly readable, and original new work, Tricia Jenkins takes on the seldom-explored topic of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) relationship with Hollywood. While this may conjure up cloak-and-dagger images of secretive operations as befits the agency's image on big and little screens, Jenkins concentrates instead on how the CIA has (or has not) managed that image overtly, that is, through established, above board, public affairs channels and liaisons. Highly original and well researched, Jenkins's work makes a worthy contribution to the fledgling literature on this topic...Overall, Jenkins's work is fresh and original, and demonstrates sound scholarship. The author has a passion for the topic that translates to vibrant writing. It is also a concise as well as entertaining look at an aspect of the CIA--its media relations with Hollywood--of which little is known. Enthusiastically written and incorporating effective, illustrative case studies, The CIA in Hollywood is definitely recommended to students of film, media relations, the CIA, and U.S. interagency relations." - Marks Montesclaros, H-War "Argo and Zero Dark Thirty are only the latest film productions the CIA has influenced in the 15 years since the Agency opened its official liaison office to Hollywood. Tricia Jenkins examines the history of this version of "Hollywood confidential" in The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television. Short and dry, her book raises serious ethical and legal questions about the relationship between the CIA and Hollywood, and the extent to which we consume propaganda from one through the other." - Los Angeles Review of Books

(Bookdata)