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teh_klev · 2018-09-27
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You should check out Tom Secker's "Spy Culture" website. You'd be quite amazed how much influence the US Military (and other US departments) have when it comes to producing movies and TV series that need even the slightest assistance from the US Air Force/Navy/CIA/FBI etc.
"Need to hire a couple of UH-60's for a scene? Let's be having a look at your script first."
Secker also has a book (it's on my reading list) called "National Security Cinema"[1] which investigates these same themes.
[0]: https://www.spyculture.com/
[1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/National-Security-Cinema-Government...
The book, $13:
https://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Cinema-Government-H...
The article about the book:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/27/nsec-f27.html
"Using the Freedom of Information Act, the authors gained access to files that exposed the extent of government censorship in films between 1911 and 2017. The DOD (Department of Defense, or Pentagon) provided military equipment and “advice,” and even allowed members of the military to make appearances, in exchange for some degree of control over the content of 814 films.
The authors continue, “If we include the 1,133 TV titles in our count, the number of screen entertainment products supported by the DOD leaps to 1,947. If we are to include the individual episodes for each title on long-running shows like 24, Homeland, and NCIS, as well as the influence of other major organisations like the FBI, CIA and White House then it becomes clear that the national security state has supported thousands of products.”"
The movie discussed in the title article, streaming $4.75:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theatersofwar