‘Adjuncts of Government’: Darryl F. Zanuck and 20thCentury-Fox in Service to the Executive Branch, 1935–1971

Autor:	Michael Ray Fitzgerald
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Service (business) History Government Hollywood Visual Arts and Performing Arts Communication media_common.quotation_subject Media studies Charge (warfare) Executive branch Corporation Law Sociology Ideology Studio media_common
Zdroj:	Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 36:373-391
ISSN:	1465-3451 0143-9685
DOI:	10.1080/01439685.2015.1100387
Popis:	In 1966, the US Senator J. William Fulbright noted that media industries often behave as ‘adjuncts of government’. Fulbright was not the first Congress member to charge this: in 1941, ‘isolationist’ Senator Gerald P. Nye called the Hollywood film studios ‘gigantic engines of propaganda’. There have been several historical examples that support Fulbright’s and Nye’s accusations, perhaps none so blatantly as 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation with its prime mover, Darryl F. Zanuck. It is clear that the media industries, the defence industries (some of which are themselves media owners) and the government, being closely intertwined, share economic and ideological interests – especially when it comes to the prospect of war. However, the specific situation I discuss involved much more than intertwining ideological and economic interests – it also involved a complex web of ‘horse-trading’, social-climbing, personal foibles and obsessions.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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