FBI Exercises Tight Control Over Media Portrayal In Hollywood

The FBI claims that it has much to offer entertainment producers and touts several items as services it may choose to provide: “guidance” on content about the FBI’s investigations, procedures, structure, and history.

Kevin Gosztola
Por Kevin Gosztola
A sign for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) offices in Washington, DC.

Journalist Jason Leopold obtained hundreds of documents through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that further reveal how the FBI relies upon movies and television to bolster its image. In a report for Buzzfeed, Leopold and Ariane Lange write, “Over the past five years, the FBI’s Hollywood-focused Investigative Publicity and Public Affairs

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Will China Save Us From Hollywood?

China could be pushing back the blatant pro-western, neoliberal tone that has been so prevalent in modern cinema.

Caleb T. Maupin
Por Caleb T. Maupin
A woman stands in front of the advertisements of Chinese and foreign films on showing at a movie theater in Shanghai, China.

As right-wing conservatives in the United States have pointed out for decades, Hollywood is a very political place. However, a new and growing source of political influence may be changing how the global entertainment industry, US film studios included, portrays events on the silver screen. China, led by the 90-million members of its Communist

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Zombie Nation

What collective neurosis is the American public trying to untangle with its ongoing obsession with the undead?

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Por Jeffrey Cavanaugh

With Halloween fast approaching and with events abroad and in Washington more than enough to scare the living daylights out of anyone, let us ponder for a moment the nation’s latest obsession: zombies. Yes, that’s right: the living dead have broken from the bounds of nerd memedom and burst -- or rather, have shuffled aimlessly -- into the American

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