{"product_id":"hearts-and-mines-the-us-empires-culture-industry-paperback-softback-9780774830157","title":"Hearts and Mines; The US Empire's Culture Industry (Paperback \/ softback) 9780774830157","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHearts and Mines\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe US Empire's Culture Industry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTanner Mirrlees (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780774830157\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 June 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTanner 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.\" - Thomas Klikauer, Western Sydney University, Australia (European)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Katy Perry training alongside US Marines in a music video, to the global box-office mastery of the US military-supported \u003cem\u003eTransformers\u003c\/em\u003e franchise, to the explosion of war games such as \u003cem\u003eCall of Duty,\u003c\/em\u003e it's clear that the US security state is a dominant force in media culture. But is the ubiquity of cultural products that glorify the security state a new phenomenon? Or have Uncle Sam and Hollywood been friends for a long time? \u003cem\u003eHearts and Mines\u003c\/em\u003e examines the rise and reach of the US Empire's culture industry – a nexus between the US's security state and media firms and the source of cultural products that promote American strategic interests around the world. Building on and extending Herbert I. Schiller's classic study of US Empire and communications, Tanner Mirrlees interrogates the symbiotic geopolitical and economic relationships between the US state and media firms that drive the production of imperial culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: The Personal is Geopolitical\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The US Empire's Culture Industry, circa 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 The US Empire and the Culture Industry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 Public Diplomacy and Selling the American Way to the World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 The US Culture Industry: Still Number One\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 The DOD–News Media Complex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 The DOD–Hollywood Complex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 The DOD–Digital Games Complex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion: US Empire, Cultural Imperialism, and Cultural Policy, at Large\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReferences; Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"UBC Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52531055427864,"sku":"9780774830157","price":25.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/hearts-and-mines-the-us-empires-culture-industry-paperback-softback-9780774830157","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}