TY - JOUR
T1 - An Act of War?
T2 - The Interview Affair, the Sony Hack, and the Hollywood-Washington Nexus Today
AU - Shaw, Tony
AU - Jenkins, Tricia
N1 - © Cambridge University Press and British Association for American Studies 2017
PY - 2019/2/1
Y1 - 2019/2/1
N2 - Film has been an integral part of the propaganda war fought between the United States and North Korea over the past decade. The international controversy surrounding the Hollywood comedy The Interview in 2014 vividly demonstrated this and, in the process, drew attention to hidden dimensions of the US state security–entertainment complex in the early twenty-first century. Using the emails leaked courtesy of the Sony hack of late 2014, this article explores the Interview affair in detail, on the one hand revealing the close links between Sony executives and US foreign-policy advisers and on the other explaining the difficulties studios face when trying to balance commercial and political imperatives in a global market.
AB - Film has been an integral part of the propaganda war fought between the United States and North Korea over the past decade. The international controversy surrounding the Hollywood comedy The Interview in 2014 vividly demonstrated this and, in the process, drew attention to hidden dimensions of the US state security–entertainment complex in the early twenty-first century. Using the emails leaked courtesy of the Sony hack of late 2014, this article explores the Interview affair in detail, on the one hand revealing the close links between Sony executives and US foreign-policy advisers and on the other explaining the difficulties studios face when trying to balance commercial and political imperatives in a global market.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0021875817000512
DO - 10.1017/S0021875817000512
M3 - Article
SN - 1469-5154
VL - 53
SP - 1
EP - 27
JO - Journal of American Studies
JF - Journal of American Studies
IS - 1
ER -