Hearts and Mines: The Us Empire's Culture Industry

by Tanner Mirrlees

Book Overview

The US security state is everywhere in cultural products: in army-supported news stories, TV shows, and video games; in CIA-influenced blockbusters and comics; and in State Department ads, broadcasts, and websites. Hearts and Mines examines the rise and reach of the US Empire's culture industry - a nexus between the US's security state and media firms and the source of cultural products that promote American strategic interests around the world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774830158
• ISBN13: 9780774830157
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"