Operation Hollywood How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies,9781591021827

Operation Hollywood How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies

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ISBN13: 9781591021827
ISBN10: 1591021820
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-04-30
Publisher(s): Prometheus
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Summary

As veteran Hollywood journalist David L Robb shows in this revealing insider's look into Hollywood's 'dirtiest little secret', the final product that moviegoers see at the theatre is often not just what the director intends but also what the powers-that-be in the military want to project about America's armed forces.

Author Biography

David L. Robb is an award-winning freelance journalist who has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times. He has published articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Daily News, the Nation, LA Weekly, Salon.com, and Brill's Content. For many years Robb was a labor and legal reporter for the Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety.

Table of Contents

Foreword 13(10)
Acknowledgments 23(2)
Introduction 25(4)
Chapter 1. Censoring James Bond 29(4)
Tomorrow Never Dies
Goldeneye
Chapter 2. "A Commercial for Us" 33(8)
Clear and Present Danger
Chapter 3. "Discrimination Against Speech because of Its Message Is Presumed to Be Unconstitutional" 41(12)
Countermeasures-The Unproduced Movie
The Last Detail
Cinderella Liberty
Chapter 4. "Revisionist History" 53(6)
Thirteen Days
The Perfect Storm
Chapter 5. Changing History 59(8)
Windtalkers
Chapter 6. Bending Over Backward 67(6)
Independence Day
G.I. Jane
Chapter 7. "The Producers Will 'Punch It Up' in Any Manner We Dictate" 73(4)
Jurassic Park III
Chapter 8. "The Mooning of a President by a Uniformed Soldier Is Not Acceptable Cinematic License" 77(4)
Forrest Gump
Chapter 9. Rewriting Renaissance Man 81(10)
Chapter 10. "It's All in the Negotiations": The Films of Jerry Bruckheimer 91(10)
Black Hawk Down
Pearl Harbor
Armageddon
Top Gun
Crimson Tide
Chapter 11. "Show Stoppers" 101(4)
Air Force One
Chapter 12. Self-Censorship Is Still Censorship 105(8)
The Tuskegee Airmen
Afterburn
The Wall
A Dangerous Life
Chapter 13. The First Amendment Doesn't Always Come First 113(4)
Hearts in Atlantis
Chapter 14. Approval Denied 117(6)
Citizen Cohn
Fail Safe
Mars Attacks
Outbreak
Space Cowboys
Memphis Belle
The General's Daughter
Sergeant Bilko
Courage Under Fire
Lone Star
Broken Arrow
The Pentagon Wars
Chapter 15. "Dishonest Propaganda" 123(8)
My Father, My Son
Fields of Fire
Chapter 16. Sanitizing JAG 131(6)
Chapter 17. "A 45-Minute Commercial for Marine Aviation" 137(6)
Pensacola: Wings of Gold
Gardens of Stone
Chapter 18. Bending the Rules 143(6)
Jets
Silver Wings
Executive Decision
Family of Spies
Chapter 19. "I Want Page Six and Seven Completely Thrown Out or You Don't Get to Use Our Aircraft Carrier" 149(4)
The Agency
The Sum of All Fears
In the Company of Spies
Chapter 20. Turning Vodka into Water 153(10)
The Presidio
Chapter 21. Censorship: The Final Frontier 163(8)
Star Trek IV
Chapter 22. Almost Sunk by the Navy 171(6)
The Hunt for Red October
No Way Out
Chapter 23. Turning Movies into Recruiting Posters 177(12)
The Right Stuff
The Final Countdown
Air Force One
Flight of the Intruder
The Hunt for Red October
Top Gun
Behind Enemy Lines
Deep Impact
In the Army Now
Airport '
'77
D-Day: The Sixth of June
Second to None-The Unproduced Movie
To Hell and Back
Take Her Down
Chapter 24. "Editorial Control Over the Product" 189(2)
JAG-The Unproduced Movie
Chapter 25. Changing Stripes 191(6)
Stripes
Evolution
Chapter 26. An Officer, But Not a Gentleman 197(8)
An Officer and a Gentleman
Chapter 27. "Writing the Scene to the Admiral's Specifications" 205(8)
Raise the Titanic
Chapter 28. Join the Navy-Be Indicted 213(8)
Final Countdown
Clear and Present Danger
Good Morning, Vietnam
Chapter 29. Join the Army-Be Indicted 221(6)
The General's Daughter
McHale's Navy
Chapter 30. Clint Eastwood versus the Pentagon 227(14)
Heartbreak Ridge
Chapter 31. "Is That Not Propaganda?" 241(6)
A Rumor of War
Chapter 32. Sanitizing The Great Santini 247(14)
Chapter 33. "A Wonderful Public Relations Tool" 261(6)
Taps
Chapter 34. Mooning the Pentagon 267(6)
Inchon
Chapter 35. Let There Not Be Light 273(4)
Maria's Lovers
Chapter 36. "The Propaganda Value of the Film" 277(8)
The Green Berets
Chapter 37. Bowing to Political Pressure 285(2)
Blood Alley
Chapter 38. Erasing Private Pedro 287(10)
Battle Cry
Chapter 39. "A Shameful Attempt to Impose Censorship on a Film" 297(6)
Attack!
Chapter 40. Lassie Wants You to Join the Army 303(4)
Lassie
Chapter 41. Babes in Arms 307(8)
The Mickey Mouse Club
Independence Day
Steve Canyon
West Point
Men of Annapolis
Chapter 42. Babes in Gas Chambers 315(6)
Devil Pups-The Unproduced Movie
Chapter 43. The Cy Roth Story 321(8)
Air Strike
Chapter 44. "Cooperation by the United States Navy Should Evince a Certain Reciprocity in Making Changes in the Script" 329(6)
Hellcats of the Navy
Chapter 45. Even Good Men Do Bad Things: The Frank McCarthy Story 335(10)
Three Brave Men
Patton
Chapter 46. Covering Up the Cover-up 345(6)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Chapter 47. Religiously Incorrect 351(2)
The Proud and the Profane
Chapter 48. Torpedoed by the Navy 353(8)
Admiral Rickover-The Unproduced Movie
Supercarrier-The Canceled TV Show
Chapter 49. Heroes and Villains 361(4)
Conclusion 365(4)
Sources 369(4)
Index 373

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