Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4565-8233
Date Available
5-1-2025
Year of Publication
2025
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
College
Fine Arts
Department/School/Program
Arts Administration
Faculty
Tom Borrup
Faculty
Rachel Shane
Faculty
Yuha Jung
Abstract
This research explores how the United States military’s assistance to film productions can be better classified and understood as a form of cultural policy. There is a significant gap in the existing cultural policy research concerning interventions into the arts and culture by the military aimed at influencing the thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes of the population. The degree to which the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) long partnership with the film industry should even be considered “cultural policy” remains an open, and largely unexamined question. This dissertation presents an exploratory multiple case study of two films which received DoD production assistance as well as analysis of Lawrence Suid’s unpublished interview materials with DoD officials. The findings are synthesized to propose an expanded taxonomy of cultural policy that better accounts for DoD film production assistance as a form of cultural policy.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2025.64
Recommended Citation
Lockridge, Samuel, "CULTIVATING HEGEMONY: CULTURAL ENGINEERING AND THE ART OF POWER MAINTENANCE IN MILITARY MOVIES" (2025). Theses and Dissertations--Arts Administration. 5.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/arts_admin_etds/5
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