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In secrecy's shadow : the OSS and CIA in Hollywood cinema 1941-1979 / Simon Willmetts.
LIBRA PN1995.9.S68 W55 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willmetts, Simon, author.
- Series:
- Traditions in American cinema
- Traditions in American Cinema
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency--In motion pictures.
- United States.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- Spy films--United States--History and criticism.
- Spy films.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- This book provides the first comprehensive history of the relationship between Hollywood, the Central Intelligence Agency, and its wartime predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services. Utilising extensive archival research and interviews with filmmakers and former spies, it documents a revolution in the relationship between Hollywood and the secret state from unwavering trust and cooperation to extreme0skepticism and paranoia.
- Contents:
- 1 The Facts of War: Cinematic Intelligence and the Office of Strategic Services 22
- John Ford's Navy 30
- Weaponising Cinema 34
- Hollywood's Intelligence Archive 36
- Wild Bill Donovan and the Origins of the OSS Field Photographic Unit 42
- December 7th: Scripting an Intelligence Failure 46
- Zanuck, Ford and the Filming of the North African Invasion 51
- The Authority of Cinema at the Nuremberg Trials 57
- 2 'What is Past is Prologue': Hollywood's History of the OSS and the Establishment of the CIA 77
- Hollywood Enlists in General Donovan's Campaign for a Permanent Peacetime Intelligence Agency 79
- O.S.S. (1946) 85
- Cloak and Dagger (1946) 89
- 13 Rue Madeleine (1947) 102
- 3 Quiet Americans: The CIA and Hollywood in the Early Cold War 121
- Cherishing Anonymity; Hollywood and the CIA in the Early Cold War 127
- Dangerous Liaisons: The CIA in Hollywood 138
- Joseph Mankiewicz's The Quiet American (1958) 142
- Figaro Entertainment's Unmade CIA Semi-documentary TV Series 159
- 4 The Death of the 'Big Lie' and the Emergence of Postmodern Incredulity in the Spy Cinema of the 1960s 170
- Our Man in Havana and the Origins of Cold War Satire 181
- North by Northwest (1959) 185
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and TV Spy Satire in the 1960s 193
- Parody Turns Political in The President's Analyst (1967) 204
- 5 Secrecy, Conspiracy, Cinema and the CIA in the 1970s 222
- Scorpio (1973) and CIA Public Relations 232
- The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973) 236
- Watergate, The Parallax View (1974) and the Emergence of the Conspiracy Thriller 241
- Three Days of the Condor (1975) 248
- Emile de Antonio and Philip Agee: The Radical CIA Film that Never Was 253
- Fighting Back: The Birth of CIA Public Relations 261.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780748692996
- 0748692991
- OCLC:
- 949628131
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