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National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood Paperback – June 27, 2017

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This is a book about secrecy, militarism, manipulation, and censorship at the heart of the world’s leading democracy—and about those who try to fight them. Using thousands of pages of documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act National Security Cinema exclusively reveals that the national security state—led by the CIA and Pentagon—has worked on more than eight-hundred Hollywood films and over a thousand network television shows. The latest scholarship has underestimated the size of this operation, in part because the government has gone to considerable lengths to prevent data emerging, especially in the 21st Century, as the practice of government-Hollywood cooperation has escalated and become more aggressive. National Security Cinema reveals for the first time specific script changes made by the government for political reasons on dozens of blockbusting films and franchises like Transformers, Avatar, Meet the Parents, and The Terminator. These forces have suppressed important narratives about: CIA drug trafficking; illegal arms sales; military creation of bio-weapons; the interaction of private armies and oil companies; government treatment of minorities; torture; coups; assassinations, and the failure to prevent 9/11.

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June 27, 2017
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6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
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1548084980
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"Frankly, I wasn't aware of the infiltration of Hollywood by the Pentagon and the CIA [but] I've since read the book National Security Cinema from 2017, in which [Matthew Alford and co-author Tom Secker] lay out clear evidence which is shocking to me. I never saw it all under one roof. ... he's wonderful, it's so necessary what he did".

Oliver Stone - JFK, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killers, Doors, Snowden, Nixon, Wall St.

About the Author

Dr. Matthew Alford is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bath in England. His doctoral thesis applied Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky's Propaganda Model to the Hollywood film industry. Dr. Alford is producer of the documentary film, The Writer with No Hands, which premiered at Hot Docs in Canada and won runner-up at the Ammar Popular Film Festival in Iran.

Tom Secker runs spyculture.com--the world's premier online archive about government involvement in the entertainment industry. He has used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain unique government documents since 2010, which has been reported on by Russia Today, Salon, Techdirt, The Mirror, The Express and other outlets. He has authored and co-authored articles for Critical Sociology and the American Journal of Economics and Sociology and hosts the popular ClandesTime podcast.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; First Paperback Edition (June 27, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1548084980
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1548084981
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #899,863 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #371 in Propaganda & Political Psychology

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DBH

Plausible Deniability

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2019

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It’s obvious after reading this that the majority of what we see and hear in our movies and TV shows is for our ‘conditioning and indoctrination’. And it’s not just what we consider government entities, but other clandestine sources that are also bombarding us with relentless propaganda. It would be interesting to find out just how many writers of movie and TV scripts have been approached, and been given top secret information to include in their stories, so that once it was seen by the masses, an entity like the Air Force, Nasa, or the Military Industrial Complex could deflect all inquiries by simply stating, ‘We don’t have anything like that. You just saw that in the movies. Don’t let your imagination get the better of you!” Can you think of a better way of hiding black budget programs using Plausible Deniability? “It was just a TV show guys!” As you read this, make sure to read the endnotes where prompted. It will really increase your understanding of those movies under discussion. In the Appendix sections, the DOD’s sponsored films and TV shows was revelatory. Wow! This book is definitely worth reading.

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Andrew

Enjoyable reading whether you like the movies or hate them

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2017

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National Security Cinema reveals that much of Hollywood entertainment, while purportedly neutral, actually contains pro-military and pro-corporate messages. The book further explores how the Pentagon and intelligence agencies manage to get these messages into so many films, drawing on a wealth of FOIA released documents to do so. Enjoyable reading whether you like the movies or hate them.
This is also one of the few books that challenge the traditional narratives of Rwanda and the Balkans in the 1990s.

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Hrvoje M.

National Security Cinema a Must-Read for Cinephiles and Students of US Government Policy

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2017

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The authors have compiled a timely set of case studies based on their FOIA requests clearly outlining the opaque relationship between Hollywood film productions and the Pentagon, CIA and NSA.

An entire set of documents covering decades of the relationship between Hollywood and Washington have been squared away in the private library of a Pentagon-approved historian Lawrence Suid. Despite the censorship, the documents that are at public disposal thanks to the FOIA requests and research of the authors detail how Washington manipulates Hollywood by making minor script changes, major script rewrites, casting calls and can even prevent films from being made.

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robin u

Excellent book providing insight into the influence of the state ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2017

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Excellent book providing insight into the influence of the state on Hollywood productions. Using concrete sources such as FOIA documents acquired by the authors, National Security Cinema provides priceless information on how the Pentagon, CIA and other governmental agencies are able to make changes to scripts of movie producers who request assistance in the way equipment, location and/or personnel. These changes are intended to paint the assisting agency in a more positive light or remove a subversive element of the script for example. The book also touches on the corporate product placement element of entertainment and how many films get substantial portions of their production budget from such agreements. For anyone interested in the government propaganda involved in film and television, this book is for you.

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Shlim Shlim Sharabim

Cupcake Warfare funded by your hard earned tax dollars

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2017

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Great book on an important, ignored and engaging topic. Do you like the Hollywood movies? Do you like your television programs? If the answer to either of these questions is yes, than you should take a little time out of your busy schedule to read about how media producers work alongside government institutions. The military in particular is extremely busy assisting on a wide variety of media productions.
This book is an easy read, but it also contains a ton of hard hitting information. Highly recommended.

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Bradley William Plaisier

Good & cool

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2019

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just saw a ben shapiro prageru video about hollywood’s nefarious lib indoctrination program lol

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Scott Myers

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2018

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Fantastic book about our government involved in the movie business and how they control what you see.

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Barbra-renee Brighenti

Yep

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2017

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Well, well, well, who would have guested

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Kieran

Not great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2021

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If you're a film geek like me then the book has some details about productions that are very interesting and fun to know.

However,

I am unsure if this book was proof-read or edited properly? I couldn't find Drum Roll Books on Google? Either way it is poorly written and doesn't make sense at points. And the conclusions jumped too often aren't supported by the evidence given.

If the government are going to provide productions with billions of dollars of equipment, time, expertise, locations and personel then it isn't surprising that they would want something in return - for example not being made to look bad by said production.

Interesting for the cinema geek or conspiracy theorist but overall not an enjoyable read.

sten bjorsell

The title could equally be "The sculpturing of the American ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2018

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The title could equally be "The sculpturing of the American mind", but the "agencies" would surely object.
Citation to provide an idea what it all "is" about:
"The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people's minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized."
Said by Elmer Davis, Director of the office of war information 1942. Judging from the book the same Hollywood management continued ever since.

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Rabbit

Recommended reading for truth seekers and those curious about home grown propaganda

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 27, 2017

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Read straight thru this in a few days. Deals with sensational material in a very balanced, objective and unsensational way, presenting the well referenced evidence as you go. Leaves you to draw your own conclusions.

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Matthew Alford

Such lovely authors with great clothes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 15, 2021

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Um. I think it rocked. Thanks for the opportunity to write this 😬

N. M. Ahmed

This is a must read to understand the scale and ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2017

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This is a must read to understand the scale
and extent of the militarization of popular culture- all from official documents, much of which have been revealed here for the first time

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