About the Author:
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.
From the Inside Flap:
"Ranging from exhibition practices and screen technologies to government policies and various types of useful cinema, the new research gathered in this ambitious, timely, and necessary book expands and reorients how we might think about the entwined history of motion pictures and the American military."--Gregory A. Waller, Provost Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, Indiana University
"This vital collection takes us into the vortex of military institutions and explores how they have used cinema to project their power across complex geographies and into hearts and minds. Contributors rethink the cinematic apparatus, uncovering forgotten technologies, unknown exhibition strategies, and secret intelligence operations along the way."--Lisa Parks, Professor of Comparative Media Studies, MIT
"The modern American military didn't project only its power around the world. It projected movies, too, and in the process developed audiences, technologies, and narratives that linked imperial progress with motion pictures. This stunning volume shows that the relationship between the movies and the military has shaped the geopolitics of the past 125 years."--Eric Smoodin, Professor of American Studies and Film Studies, University of California, Davis
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