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OverviewThe 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. Building on Herbert I. Schiller's classic study of US Empire and communications, Tanner Mirrlees interrogates the symbiotic geopolitical and economic relationships between the US state and media firms that drive the production of imperial culture. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tanner MirrleesPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.620kg ISBN: 9780774830140ISBN 10: 077483014 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 15 January 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPreface: The Personal is Geopolitical Introduction: The US Empire's Culture Industry, circa 2012 1 The US Empire and the Culture Industry 2 Public Diplomacy and Selling the American Way to the World 3 The US Culture Industry: Still Number One 4 The DOD-News Media Complex 5 The DOD-Hollywood Complex 6 The DOD-Digital Games Complex Conclusion: US Empire, Cultural Imperialism, and Cultural Policy, at Large References; IndexReviewsTanner Mirrlees' most exquisite book on the US culture industry starts with a rhetorical question: Is `the relationship between the US government and the culture industry one of conflict or symbiosis?' (p. xiii). Mirrlees answers this with `symbiosis'... While Mirrlees' book is most insightful and illuminating it is also devastatingly pessimistic, perhaps even dystopian. -- Thomas Klikauer, Western Sydney University, Australia * European * Tanner Mirrlees’ most exquisite book on the US culture industry starts with a rhetorical question: Is ‘the relationship between the US government and the culture industry one of conflict or symbiosis?’ (p. xiii). Mirrlees answers this with ‘symbiosis’… While Mirrlees’ book is most insightful and illuminating it is also devastatingly pessimistic, perhaps even dystopian.” -- Thomas Klikauer, Western Sydney University, Australia * European * Tanner Mirrlees' most exquisite book on the US culture industry starts with a rhetorical question: Is 'the relationship between the US government and the culture industry one of conflict or symbiosis?' (p. xiii). Mirrlees answers this with 'symbiosis'... While Mirrlees' book is most insightful and illuminating it is also devastatingly pessimistic, perhaps even dystopian. -- Thomas Klikauer, Western Sydney University, Australia * European * Author InformationTanner Mirrlees is an assistant professor in the Communication and Digital Media Studies Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). He is the author of Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization and co-editor of The Television Reader. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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