In Secrecy's Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema 1941-1979

ISBN-13: 9781474425940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 320 str.

Simon Willmetts

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Drawing on extensive archival research, In Secrecy's Shadow explores the revolution in the relationship between Hollywood and the secret state, from unwavering trust and cooperation to extreme scepticism and paranoia.

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Chapter 1: The Facts of War: Cinematic Intelligence and the Office of Strategic Services

• John Ford’s Navy
• Weaponising Cinema
• Hollywood’s Intelligence Archive
• Wild Bill Donovan and the Origins of the OSS Field Photographic Unit
• December 7^th: Scripting an Intelligence Failure
• Zanuck, Ford and the Filming of the North African Invasion
• The Authority of Cinema at the Nuremberg Trials

Chapter 2: ‘What is Past is Prologue’: Hollywood’s History of the OSS and the Establishment of the CIA

• Hollywood Enlists in General Donovan’s Campaign for a Permanent Peacetime Intelligence Agency
• O.S.S. (1946)
• Cloak and Dagger (1946)
• 13 Rue Madeleine (1947)

Chapter 3: Quiet Americans: The CIA and Hollywood in the Early Cold War

• Cherishing Anonymity: Hollywood and the CIA in the Early Cold War
• Dangerous Liaisons: The CIA in Hollywood
• Joseph Mankiewicz’s The Quiet American (1958)
• Figaro Entertainment’s Unmade CIA Semi-Documentary TV Series

Chapter 4: The Death of the ‘Big Lie’ and the Emergance of Postmodern Incredulity in the Spy Cinema of the 1960s

• Our Man in Havana and the Origins of Cold War Satire
• North by Northwest (1959)
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and TV Spy Satire in the 1960s
• Parody Turns Political in The President’s Analyst (1967)

Chapter 5: Secrecy, Conspiracy, Cinema and the CIA in the 1970s

• Scorpio (1973) and CIA Public Relations
• The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
• Watergate, The Parallax View (1974) and the Emergence of the Conspiracy Thriller
• Three Days of the Condor (1975)
• Emile de Antonio and Philip Agee: The Radical CIA Film that Never Was
• Fighting Back: The Birth of CIA Public Relations