The Military-Entertainment Complex Hits Summer Cinema Screens - Disinfo.com
What do you get when the Pentagon joins into a symbiotic relationship
with our major entertainment industries? The birthing of the
ever-growing baby that we call militainment. The military grants
filmmakers access to high-powered technology and in return, Hollywood
propagates films that make warfare seem legitimate. Al Jazeera discusses
Act of Valor,
an $80-million-grossing action film released earlier this year which
was commissioned by the Navy’s Special Warfare Command and goes “beyond
propaganda”:
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