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In the first of four Horizons of Change luncheons during the 2018 Summer Peacebuilding Institute at Eastern Mennonite University, screenwriter and author Tiffany FitzHenry traced the collaboration of the American movie industry and the United States military to create propaganda.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe direct control that the U.S. military exerts over Hollywood has real implications for peace,\u201d said SPI director <\/span>Bill Goldberg<\/span><\/a>. In his event welcome he related his own experience: \u201cAs a teenager I very nearly attended the Air Force Academy for college, and the movie <\/span>Top Gun<\/span><\/i> was one of the influential movies that made me think I wanted to do that with my life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Titled \u201cHollywood and the Pentagon: A Relationship of Mutual Exploitation,\u201d FitzHenry\u2019s speech described the \u201cmilitary-industrial-media-entertainment network,\u201d and noted historical points such as the 1927 Academy Award-winning film <\/span>Wings <\/span><\/i>\u2013 a product of Department of Defense working with Hollywood \u2013 and the 1942 establishment of a Department of Defense motion picture liaison office in Los Angeles aimed at galvanizing of the American public behind the war effort.<\/span><\/p>\n

The benefits are mutual, as Department of Defense Director of Entertainment Media Phil Strub wrote in <\/span>a 2010 military blog post<\/span><\/a>: \u201cEntertainment media producers have wanted access to U.S. military equipment and real estate \u2013 including ships \u2013 since the dawn of American cinema \u2026 even though it comes with strings attached.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Those strings, said FitzHenry, include direct oversight of the script and editing process, meaning that the Pentagon in this case \u201cfunctions as a movie studio\u201d that dictates how the military, war and history is portrayed. This has resulted, she said, in the removal from movie scripts of references to veteran suicide, the Vietnam War, the Iran-Contra Affair and negative portrayals of personnel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf peacebuilding is what you want to accomplish on a very effective and worldwide scale,\u201d FitzHenry said, \u201cthe minds of the Americans and what\u2019s coming out of America is such a critical component, because you have people completely, always ready to consent to war, always at the ready.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Disabling such propaganda, she said, starts with identifying it. \u201cEverything we consume in the digital age is mobilized for war, and if we want to get rid of war, we have to get rid of this,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have to expose it. Propaganda won\u2019t work if you know it\u2019s propaganda.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Atlanta-based author of <\/span>The<\/span><\/i> Oldest Soul<\/span><\/i> trilogy said that the cost of of the military propagandization of entertainment comes at an additional cost, too: \u201cWe\u2019re losing art when we tell those stories,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s taking the place of storytelling that comes from the divine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a violation of the First Amendment, she said, as the Pentagon is using government funds to favor some \u2013 and suppress other \u2013 speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

She plans to publish her work in a small book.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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