E233 - Film and Cold War Industrial Power w/ Alice Lovejoy

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our content. Danny and Derek welcome to the show Alice Lovejoy, professor of film and media studies at the University of Minnesota, to talk about the intersections of cinema, corporate power, and the military. They discuss how film production became entangled with military and chemical sectors; how corporate interests and state power shaped the technologies of cinema; the ways photographic film recorded and was shaped by Cold War geopolitics; and cinema as both a cultural expression and an product of industrial and geopolitical forces. Read Alice’s book Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.1	Alice Lovejoy.
1:13.3	Alice is a professor of film and media studies at the University of Minnesota,
1:17.3	an author of the recently released Tales of Militant Chemistry,
1:21.3	The Film Factory in a Century of War.
1:24.0	Alice, thank you so much for joining me today.
1:27.2	Thanks for having me.
1:28.7	So the book is really interesting, really genuinely interdisciplinary in a way that most
1:33.4	things I claim to be interdisciplinary are not.
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