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## A comprehensive, archivally researched history of the CIA and Hollywood cinema During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS to produce training, reconnaissance and propaganda films. This wartime bond continued into the post-war period, when a number of studios produced films advocating the creation of a permanent peacetime successor to the OSS: what became the Central Intelligence Agency. By the 1960s however, Hollywood's increasingly irreverent attitude towards the CIA reflected a growing public anxiety about excessive US government secrecy. __In Secrecy's Shadow__ provides the first comprehensive history of the birth and development of Hollywood's relationship with American intelligence. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, synthesizing literatures and methodologies from diplomatic history, film studies and cultural theory, and it presents new perspectives on a number of major filmmakers including Darryl F. Zanuck, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford. Based on research conducted in over 20 archival repositories across the United States and UK, __In Secrecy's Shadow__ explores the revolution

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Author

Simon Willmetts

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780748692996

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Art