Movies, Myth, and the National Security State.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Which Movies? -- Structure of the Book -- Notes -- Chapter 1- The National Security State and Hollywood Movies -- What Is the US National Security State? -- Components, Practices, and Operational Modalities -- Mere Entertainment? -- Box 1.1 Principal Tenets of the Cold War Consensus -- Americanism and Un-Americanism -- The Mythology of America -- The Mode of Analysis -- Notes -- Chapter 2- John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy and the Didactics of National Security -- Ford and the Mythology of Americanism -- Shadows over Tinsel Town -- The Evolution of Threat -- Forging the White Community -- The Limits of an Emerging Liberal Critique -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3- McCarthyism, Film Noir, and the National Security State -- Exploring the Dark Side -- Technological Innovations Be Damned -- Deconstructing the National Security State -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4- Hitchcock: From the Red Scareto Détente -- Politics in Hitchcockian Cinema -- Filming the Security Imaginary -- The Nature of the Threat -- Skepticism Toward the National Security State -- Patriarchy, the Role of Women, and Family Values -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5- The Hollywood Revolution -- Things Fall Apart -- Getting Off Its Ass -- A Less Perfect Union -- Taking America's Pulse -- Something Rotten in the State of Denmark -- The Road Not Taken -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6- The Hollywood Counterrevolution -- An Orgy of Self-Hatred? -- Be Afraid! Be Very Afraid! -- Shooting the Right People -- Dreaming America -- The Politics of Popcorn -- Notes -- Chapter 7- Vietnam-The Sequel -- The Reagan Revolution -- The Seminal Decade -- A Culture of Defeat -- Bloody Lies -- Political Entrepreneurs Fighting Back -- New Myths for a New "Religion" -- Getting to Win.

Making War, Not Love -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8- National Security for the "New World Order" -- The United States in the 1990s -- The View from Tinsel Town -- Globalization and the "End of Hollywood" -- The Transportation Business -- Who, and Where, Is the Enemy? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9- Hollywood and the War in Iraq -- Is This War Worth Fighting? -- Mission Accomplished? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10- Movies, Myth, and the National Security State -- Screening the Cold War -- Imagining the Post-Cold War Threat -- The Age of Hypersecurity -- Notes -- Filmography -- Acronyms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book.

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