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Military Recruitment and Hollywood

Pop Culture DetectiveCited 4× on HN, 2017-2020
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Pop Culture Detective examines how the US military works with Hollywood, using the Independence Day sequel's Army recruitment tie-in as the starting point. It looks at the joint marketing between 20th Century Fox and the military.

Cited in threads about military influence on movies and American cultural exports.

Media, journalism & propagandaFilm analysis & criticismMilitary history & warfare#militaryrecruitment#hollywood#propaganda#filmmarketing

4 comments from Hacker News

@bergstromm4662020 · in “Netflix stops charging customers who never watch”

I think all media serves as 'covert' propaganda, for a certain way of thinking. [1] Westerners sell the American dream and the American consumerist way of life. If we all lived the way Americans do todat, we would need another one to two planet earth's. > pirating is not sustainable Please stop shaming people for not being as rich as you. For not having 'disposable' income and have money for 'entertainment'. Have you seen the state of the world? [2] It's honestly not as fair as you make it out to be, it's not sustainable for Hollywood to keep getting the kind of power it currently has to tell stories. [3] In my eyes Westeners are so psychopathic and culturally grandiose to believe that their systems are just and fair. They are all too happy to cecede control to the corporatocracy, their (perceived) benevolent overlords. I believe what is not sustainable is intellectual property rights used by rentier capitalists to extract parasitic rents: "Whether we are streaming content or licensing software, we are paying for the privilege of slowly ceding control of private property to corporate gatekeepers." [4] [1] link and link [2] link [3] ▶ this video [4] link / link

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@fraudsyndrome2019 · in “Chinese Cash Is Suddenly Toxic in Silicon Valley, Following U.S. Pressure”

> All film and media is propagandistic in some way. Just because you swing the needle in a different direction doesn't change that fact. To add to that, one of America's biggest exports is it's culture - see "Military Recruitment and Hollywood" ▶ this video

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@azimovsky2019 · in “The Priest of Abu Ghraib”

Wow I did not read the whole article. But's it's actually pretty moving... Ok fuck it. I'm going to do a pluralist 'both/and'. It's both a horse-shit sandwich and a story of conscience. ▶ this video

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@elil172017 · in “US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows”

One of the resources the military provides is computer graphics assets like models of planes. So no, a movie that tries to create cgi scenes of war without military approval will be at a strong financial disadvantage compared to one that is allowed to use premade assets supplied by DOD. Source: ▶ this video

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