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A fascinating look at the symbiotic relationships between the US security state and the US culture industry, and their drive to promote the US Empire as a way of life through the production, packaging, and selling of cultural commodities in world markets.

Table of Contents

Preface: 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; Index

About the Author

Tanner 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.

Reviews

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.”
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