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Showing in May
Theaters Of War: How the Pentagon And CIA Took Hollywood
May 17, 2023 6:30PM
Theaters Of War: How The Pentagon And CIA Took Hollywood
If you’ve seen Top Gun or Transformers, you may have wondered: Does all of that military machinery on screen come with strings attached? Does the military actually get a crack at the script? Theaters of War digs deep into a vast new trove of recently released internal government documents to bring the answers to these questions into sharp focus.
Traveling across America, filmmaker and media scholar Roger Stahl engages an array of other researchers, bewildered veterans, PR insiders, and industry producers willing to talk. In unsettling and riveting detail, he discovers how the military and CIA have pushed official narratives while systematically scrubbing scripts of war crimes, corruption, racism, sexual assault, coups, assassinations, and torture.
From The Longest Day to Lone Survivor, Iron Man to Iron Chef, and James Bond to Jack Ryan, Theaters of War uncovers an alternative “cinematic universe” that stands as one of the great Pentagon PR coups of our time. As these activities gain new public scrutiny, new questions arise: How have they managed to fly under the radar for so long? And where do we go from here?
88 minutes
Audience Q&A following the film with Norman Solomon!
Discussion Panel
Audience Q&A Panelists
Norman Solomon is an American journalist, media critic, author and activist. His latest book, “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine,” will be published by The New Press in June 2023. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called the book “a powerful, necessary indictment of efforts to disguise the human toll of American foreign policy.”
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WAR MADE INVISIBLE
How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
The new book by Norman Solomon, being published in June 2023
“War Made Invisible will provide the fresh and profound clarity that our country desperately needs.”
—Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower and author of The Doomsday Machine
“Cutting through this manufactured ‘fog of war,’ Norman Solomon eloquently casts sunlight, the best disinfectant, on the propaganda that fuels perpetual war. War Made Invisible is essential reading in these increasingly perilous times.”
—Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
“With an immense and rare humanity, Solomon insists that we awaken from the slumber of denial and distraction and confront the carnage of the U.S.’s never-ending military onslaughts. A staggeringly important intervention.”
—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
For more information about War Made Invisible and to order the book, visit:
https://thenewpress.com/books/war-made-invisible
To find out how progressive organizations can obtain bulk copies of War Made Invisible at a deep discount, contact:
Norman[at]rootsaction.org
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