Hollywood and the Military Bureaucracy: Depicting America's Fighting Forces at Their Best and Worst

By Bob Herzberg

Through a century of movies, the U.S. military held sway over war and service-oriented films. Influenced by the armed forces and their public relations units, Hollywood presented moviegoers with images of a faultless American fighting machine led by heroic commanders.

This book examines this cooperation with detailed narratives of military blunders and unfit officers that were whitewashed to be presented in a more favorable light. Drawing on production files, correspondence between bureaucrats and filmmakers, and contemporary critical reviews, the author reveals the behind-the-scenes political maneuvers that led to the rewriting of history on-screen.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476678480
• ISBN13: 9781476678481
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up