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Table of Contents
List 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

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 19/01/2018
      ISBN13: 9780520291515, 978-0520291515
      ISBN10: 0520291514

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      List 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

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