Tricia Jenkins

History

Tricia Jenkins is the author of The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television (University of Texas Press), which entered its second edition in early 2016. It has been translated into Chinese, Turkish and Farsi and won the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title in 2013. She has appeared on several news shows, including BBC, Fox, and Al Jazeera.

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Theaters of War

Self

If you’ve seen Top Gun or Transformers, you may have wondered: Does all of that military machinery on screen come with strings attached? Does the military actually get a crack at the script? With the release of a vast new trove of internal government documents, the answers have come into sharp focus: the US military has exercised editorial control over thousands of films and television programs. As these activities gain new public scrutiny, new questions arise: How have they managed to fly under the radar for so long? And where do we go from here?