Hearts and Mines

The US Empire's Culture Industry

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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From Katy Perry training alongside US Marines in a music video, to the global box-office mastery of the US military-supported Transformers franchise, to the explosion of war games such as Call of Duty, it's clear that the US security state is a dominant force in media culture. But is the ubiquity of cultural products that glorify the security state a new phenomenon? Or have Uncle Sam and Hollywood been friends for a long time? Hearts and Mines examines the rise and reach of the US Empire's culture industry – a nexus between the US's security state and media firms and the source of cultural products that promote American strategic interests around the world. Building on and extending Herbert I. Schiller's classic study of US Empire and communications, Tanner Mirrlees interrogates the symbiotic geopolitical and economic relationships between the US state and media firms that drive the production of imperial culture.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt500 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774830157

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Preface: The Personal is GeopoliticalIntroduction: The US Empire's Culture Industry, circa 20121 The US Empire and the Culture Industry2 Public Diplomacy and Selling the American Way to the World3 The US Culture Industry: Still Number One4 The DOD–News Media Complex5 The DOD–Hollywood Complex6 The DOD–Digital Games ComplexConclusion: US Empire, Cultural Imperialism, and Cultural Policy, at LargeReferences; Index

Tanner Mirrlees' most exquisite book on the US culture industry starts with a rhetorical question: Is 'the relationship between the US government and the culture industry one of conflict or symbiosis?' (p. xiii). Mirrlees answers this with 'symbiosis'… While Mirrlees' book is most insightful and illuminating it is also devastatingly pessimistic, perhaps even dystopian." - Thomas Klikauer, Western Sydney University, Australia (European)