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Author:   Simon Willmetts (Lecturer in American Studies, University of Hull)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.627kg
ISBN:  

9780748692996

ISBN 10:   0748692991
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   26 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Facts of War: Cinematic Intelligence and the Office of Strategic Services John Ford’s Navy Weaponising Cinema Hollywood’s Intelligence Archive Wild Bill Donovan and the Origins of the OSS Field Photographic Unit December 7th: Scripting an Intelligence Failure Zanuck, Ford and the Filming of the North African Invasion The Authority of Cinema at the Nuremberg Trials Chapter 2: ‘What is Past is Prologue’: Hollywood’s History of the OSS and the Establishment of the CIA Hollywood Enlists in General Donovan’s Campaign for a Permanent Peacetime Intelligence Agency O.S.S. (1946) Cloak and Dagger (1946) 13 Rue Madeleine (1947) Chapter 3: Quiet Americans: The CIA and Hollywood in the Early Cold War Cherishing Anonymity: Hollywood and the CIA in the Early Cold War Dangerous Liaisons: The CIA in Hollywood Joseph Mankiewicz’s The Quiet American (1958) Figaro Entertainment’s Unmade CIA Semi-Documentary TV Series Chapter 4: The Death of the ‘Big Lie’ and the Emergance of Postmodern Incredulity in the Spy Cinema of the 1960s Our Man in Havana and the Origins of Cold War Satire North by Northwest (1959) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and TV Spy Satire in the 1960s Parody Turns Political in The President’s Analyst (1967) Chapter 5: Secrecy, Conspiracy, Cinema and the CIA in the 1970s Scorpio (1973) and CIA Public Relations The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973) Watergate, The Parallax View (1974) and the Emergence of the Conspiracy Thriller Three Days of the Condor (1975) Emile de Antonio and Philip Agee: The Radical CIA Film that Never Was Fighting Back: The Birth of CIA Public Relations

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"Willmetts is a fine writer who deftly blends archival work, textual analysis, and his larger arguments.--Kevin M. Flanagan ""Journal of Film and Popular Television"" In Secrecy's Shadow provides readers with a comprehensive, nuanced and insightful picture of the CIA both in and on film from the 1940s to the 1970s. Libraries should certainly acquire the text, as its prose is highly readable, its information rich and its subject matter important to understandings of intelligence, propaganda and cinematic history.'--Tricia Jenkins ""LSE Review of Books"" Willmetts advances an overarching interpretation of the interaction between intelligence, secrecy and culture, and in doing so challenges some senior figures in the historiography of his field. Well researched... rigorously organized... In Secrecy's Shadow is a courageous and substantial contribution to intelligence studies.'--Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, University of Edinburgh ""Intelligence and National Security"" Written in an incisive and accessible style, In Secrecy's Shadow is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Cold War cinema. As Willmetts observes, while the CIA's engagement in the cultural Cold War through music, literature, and the visual arts has been well documented, its relationship with Hollywood has received far less attention. In Secrecy's Shadow is also notable for its adept synthesis of scholarship and archival research from academic fields that include intelligence and diplomacy as well as cultural and film studies. This broadly interdisciplinary approach results in a nuanced understanding of the ""complex interrelationship between fact and fiction"" (16) that has shaped the CIA's place and meaning in American society.'--REBECCA PRIME ""FILM QUARTERLY"""

Willmetts advances an overarching interpretation of the interaction between intelligence, secrecy and culture, and in doing so challenges some senior figures in the historiography of his field. Well researched... rigorously organized... In Secrecy's Shadow is a courageous and substantial contribution to intelligence studies. -- Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Intelligence and National Security In Secrecy's Shadow provides readers with a comprehensive, nuanced and insightful picture of the CIA both in and on film from the 1940s to the 1970s. Libraries should certainly acquire the text, as its prose is highly readable, its information rich and its subject matter important to understandings of intelligence, propaganda and cinematic history. -- Tricia Jenkins, LSE Review of Books

-Written in an incisive and accessible style, In Secrecy's Shadow is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Cold War cinema. As Willmetts observes, while the CIA's engagement in the cultural Cold War through music, literature, and the visual arts has been well documented, its relationship with Hollywood has received far less attention. In Secrecy's Shadow is also notable for its adept synthesis of scholarship and archival research from academic fields that include intelligence and diplomacy as well as cultural and film studies. This broadly interdisciplinary approach results in a nuanced understanding of the 'complex interrelationship between fact and fiction' (16) that has shaped the CIA's place and meaning in American society.- -- REBECCA PRIME, FILM QUARTERLY -In Secrecy's Shadow provides readers with a comprehensive, nuanced and insightful picture of the CIA both in and on film from the 1940s to the 1970s. Libraries should certainly acquire the text, as its prose is highly readable, its information rich and its subject matter important to understandings of intelligence, propaganda and cinematic history.- -- Tricia Jenkins, LSE Review of Books-Willmetts advances an overarching interpretation of the interaction between intelligence, secrecy and culture, and in doing so challenges some senior figures in the historiography of his field. Well researched... rigorously organized... In Secrecy's Shadow is a courageous and substantial contribution to intelligence studies.- -- Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Intelligence and National Security

Written in an incisive and accessible style, In Secrecy's Shadow is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Cold War cinema. As Willmetts observes, while the CIA's engagement in the cultural Cold War through music, literature, and the visual arts has been well documented, its relationship with Hollywood has received far less attention. In Secrecy's Shadow is also notable for its adept synthesis of scholarship and archival research from academic fields that include intelligence and diplomacy as well as cultural and film studies. This broadly interdisciplinary approach results in a nuanced understanding of the 'complex interrelationship between fact and fiction' (16) that has shaped the CIA's place and meaning in American society. -- REBECCA PRIME, FILM QUARTERLY In Secrecy's Shadow provides readers with a comprehensive, nuanced and insightful picture of the CIA both in and on film from the 1940s to the 1970s. Libraries should certainly acquire the text, as its prose is highly readable, its information rich and its subject matter important to understandings of intelligence, propaganda and cinematic history. -- Tricia Jenkins, LSE Review of Books Willmetts advances an overarching interpretation of the interaction between intelligence, secrecy and culture, and in doing so challenges some senior figures in the historiography of his field. Well researched... rigorously organized... In Secrecy's Shadow is a courageous and substantial contribution to intelligence studies. -- Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Intelligence and National Security -Written in an incisive and accessible style, In Secrecy's Shadow is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Cold War cinema. As Willmetts observes, while the CIA's engagement in the cultural Cold War through music, literature, and the visual arts has been well documented, its relationship with Hollywood has received far less attention. In Secrecy's Shadow is also notable for its adept synthesis of scholarship and archival research from academic fields that include intelligence and diplomacy as well as cultural and film studies. This broadly interdisciplinary approach results in a nuanced understanding of the 'complex interrelationship between fact and fiction' (16) that has shaped the CIA's place and meaning in American society.- -- REBECCA PRIME, FILM QUARTERLY -In Secrecy's Shadow provides readers with a comprehensive, nuanced and insightful picture of the CIA both in and on film from the 1940s to the 1970s. Libraries should certainly acquire the text, as its prose is highly readable, its information rich and its subject matter important to understandings of intelligence, propaganda and cinematic history.- -- Tricia Jenkins, LSE Review of Books-Willmetts advances an overarching interpretation of the interaction between intelligence, secrecy and culture, and in doing so challenges some senior figures in the historiography of his field. Well researched... rigorously organized... In Secrecy's Shadow is a courageous and substantial contribution to intelligence studies.- -- Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Intelligence and National Security Willmetts advances an overarching interpretation of the interaction between intelligence, secrecy and culture, and in doing so challenges some senior figures in the historiography of his field. Well researched... rigorously organized... In Secrecy's Shadow is a courageous and substantial contribution to intelligence studies. -- Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Intelligence and National Security In Secrecy's Shadow provides readers with a comprehensive, nuanced and insightful picture of the CIA both in and on film from the 1940s to the 1970s. Libraries should certainly acquire the text, as its prose is highly readable, its information rich and its subject matter important to understandings of intelligence, propaganda and cinematic history. -- Tricia Jenkins, LSE Review of Books Well researched... rigorously organized with a film index as well as a filmography, making life a great deal easier for the reader... In Secrecy's Shadow is a courageous and substantial contribution to intelligence studies. -- Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Intelligence and National Security

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Simon Willmetts is a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull. His research falls broadly within the fields of film history, cultural theory and US foreign policy.

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