The Military’s Cinema Complex
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23609281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee Grieveson (0000-0002-5447-1372), Haidee Wasson |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Cinema's Military Industrial Complex (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/california/9780520291508.003.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4255875507 |
| ISBN | 9780520291508 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This chapter, by Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson, establishes a framework for studying the American military, a singularly powerful institution, and its relationship to cinema. It first lays out a brief history of the American military and its rise to prominence and power, and then situates the enduring use of cinema across the broad remit of the armed forces alongside previous work in this area. Special attention is paid to the economic and industrial developments that have been intertwined with the military historically. This chapter also summarizes the breadth of the military’s use of cinema, ranging from propaganda to training and from war funding to munitions testing. Knowledge about the military’s use of film helps us to understand more about the history of film and its technologies and also the various ways cinema has been implicated in the complex geopolitical dynamics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Art history · Geopolitics · Institution · Media studies · Military history · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Law · Military History and Strategy · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |