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Operation Hollywood : how the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies
- Title
- Operation Hollywood : how the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies / David L. Robb.
- Author
- Robb, David L.
- Publication
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004.
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- Description
- 384 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-372) and index.
- Contents
- Censoring James Bond -- 'A Commercial for Us' -- 'Discrimination Against Speech Because of its Message Is Presumed To Be Unconstitutional' -- 'Revisionist History' -- Changing History -- Bending Over Backwards -- 'The Producers Will Punch It Up In Any Manner We Dictate' -- 'The Mooning of a President by a Uniformed Soldier Is Not Acceptable Cinematic License' -- Rewriting Renaissance Man -- 'It's All in the Negotiations': The Films of Jerry Bruckheimer -- 'Show Stoppers' -- Self-Censorship Is Still Censorship -- The First Amendment Doesn't Always Come First -- Approval Denied -- 'Dishonest Propaganda' -- Sanitizing JAG -- 'A 45-Minute Commercial for Marine Aviation' -- Bending the Rules -- 'I Want Page Six and Seven Completely Thrown Out Or You Don't Get to Use our Aircraft Carrier' -- Turning Vodka into Water -- Censorship: The Final Frontier -- Almost Sunk by the Navy -- Turning Movies into Recruiting Posters -- 'Editorial Control Over the Product' -- Changing Stripes --
- An Officer, But Not a Gentleman -- 'Writing the Scene To the Admiral's Specifications' -- Join the Navy; Be Indicted -- Join the Army; Be Indicted -- Clint Eastwood vs. the Pentagon -- 'Is That Not Propaganda?' -- Sanitizing The Great Santini -- 'A Wonderful Public Relations Tool' -- Mooning the Pentagon -- Let There Not Be Light -- 'The Propaganda Value of the Film' -- Bowing to Political Pressure -- Erasing Private Pedro -- 'A Shameful Attempt to Impose Censorship on a Film' -- Lassie Wants You to Join the Army -- Babes In Arms -- Babes In Gas Chambers -- The Cy Roth Story -- 'Cooperation by the United States Navy Should Evince A Certain Reciprocity In Making Changes in the Script' -- Even Good Men Do Bad Things: The Frank McCarthy Story -- Covering Up the Cover Up -- Religiously Incorrect -- Torpedoed by the Navy -- Heroes and Villains.
- Call Number
- MFL 05-1904
- ISBN
- 1591021820 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004003017
- OCLC
- 54407944
- Author
- Robb, David L.
- Title
- Operation Hollywood : how the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies / David L. Robb.
- Imprint
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-372) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- MFL 05-1904