Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
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
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
