Hollywood And The Military Bureaucracy: Depicting America'S Fighting Forces At Their Best And Worst

Through a century of movies, the U.S. military held sway over war and service-oriented films. Influenced by the armed forces and their public relations units, Hollywood presented moviegoers with images of a faultless American fighting machine led by heroic commanders. This book examines this cooperation with detailed narratives of military blunders and unfit officers that were whitewashed to be presented in a more favorable light. Drawing on production files, correspondence between bureaucrats and filmmakers, and contemporary critical reviews, the author reveals the behind-the-scenes political maneuvers that led to the rewriting of history on-screen.

• | Author: Bob Herzberg
• | Publisher: McFarland
• | Publication Date: April 16, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 198 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1476678480
• | ISBN-13: 9781476678481