Cinema's Military Industrial Complex

Haidee Wasson is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. She is the author of Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema and the coeditor of Inventing Film Studies and Useful Cinema. Lee Grieveson is Professor of Media History at University College London. He is the author of Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System and the coeditor of several volumes, including Inventing Film Studies and Empire and Film.

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1. The Military’s Cinema Complex
Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson

PART ONE. THE MILITARY’S CINEMA APPARATUS
2. Experimental Viewing Protocols: Film Projection and the American Military
Haidee Wasson
3. Mobilizing the Moving Image: Movie Machines at US Military Bases and Veterans’ Hospitals during World War II
Andrea Kelley
4. Through America’s Eyes: Cinerama and the Cold War
Rebecca Prime
5. An Army of Theaters: Military, Technological, and Industrial Change in US Army Motion-Picture Exhibition
Ross Melnick

PART TWO. STRATEGIES OF VIEWING
6. War in Peace: The American Legion and the Continuing Service of Film
Tom Rice
7. Managing the Trauma of Labor: Military Psychiatric Cinema in World War II
Kaia Scott
8. Th e Cinema Intelligence Apparatus: Gregory Bateson, the Museum of Modern Art Film Library, and the Intelligence Work of Film Studies during World War II
Nathaniel Brennan
9. Epistemology of the Checkpoint: Gillo Pontecorvo’s Battle of Algiers and the Doctrine of Counterinsurgency
Vinzenz Hediger

PART THREE. MILITARY-MADE MOVIES
10. Between the Front Lines: Military Training Films, Machine Guns, and the Great War
Florian Hoof
11. From Wartime Instruction to Superpower Cinema: Maintaining the Military-Industrial Documentary
Noah Tsika
12. Framing the Bomb in the West: Th e View from Lookout Mountain
Susan Courtney
13. Occupation, Diplomacy, and the Moving Image: The US Army as Cultural Interlocutor in Korea, 1945–1948
Sueyoung Park-Primiano
14. Shots Made around the World: DASPO’s Documentation of the Vietnam War
James Paasche

PART FOUR. THE MILITARY AND ITS COLLABORATORS
15. War, Media, and the Security of State and Capital
Lee Grieveson
16. Star Testimonies: World War and the Cultural Politics of Authority
Sue Collins
17. “A Treacherous Tightrope”: The Office of War Information, Psychological Warfare, and Film Distribution in Liberated Europe
Alice Lovejoy
18. “A Campaign of Truth”: Marshall Plan Films in Greece
Katerina Loukopoulou

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