Grieveson Lee - Cinemas Military Industrial Complex

Our thanks, first, go to Mary Francis at the University of California Press for her initial support for this book and, second, to Raina Polivka for continuing that support and confidently ushering the book into production. Both Mary and Raina solicited smart reports that have greatly improved this book, and we thank the three anonymous readers and in particular Gregory Waller, who provided characteristically precise, tireless, and thoughtful comments on the entire manuscript. Zuha Khan has been a helpful and efficient editorial assistant at the press. Considerable thanks are due also to our own editorial assistants, Kaia Scott and especially Matthew Ogonoski, who have played a crucial role in keeping the editing and production process going and in getting this book finished. Philipp Dominik Keidl helped in the early stages, and Natalie Greenberg helped at the very late stages as well. Their assistance was made possible by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), Le Fond pour la Formation de Chercheurs et lAide la Recherche (Quebec) and Concordia University, Montreal.

Our contributors have stuck with us through the long process of conceiving, planning, researching, writing, and rewriting this book. We owe all of them a debt of gratitude. The strength of the book is a consequence of their work and gracious acceptance of numerous editorial interventions. In addition, Charles Acland has been, as always, an indispensable sounding board and source of sage advice as we have navigated through the complexities of these issues and pulled this book together. He is a model of professionalism and scholarly integrity.

Lee Grieveson would like to thank also Lora Brill for her unstinting support, help, and for the myriad acts of daily generosity that have made it possible for him to work intensively on this book; and for the ideals that make it necessary. Plus comrades and fellow travelers Peter Krmer, Kay Dickinson, Mark Betz, Tom Rice, Colin MacCabe, Francis Gooding, Stephanie Bird, Jon Lewis, Priya Jaikumar, and Noah Angell. Big thanks to all of them for being smart, challenging, interesting, and fun to be around. Cooper, Lauren, and Riley (as well as Lora) supply the sustaining fun and love outside of work that makes work possible. Thanks are due also to the students at UCL who have heard parts of this research rehearsed in classparticularly in my class Political Mediaand have contributed to its development. Parts of this have been rehearsed elsewhere, too, perhaps most notably at The Political Screen conference organized by Shakuntala Banaji and myself as a coproduction of LSE and UCL under the aegis of the Screen Studies group at the University of London. But most of all thanks are due to Haidee for beingas alwaysbrilliant, funny, hardworking, and committed to the highest standards of scholarship. I signed up to the hard work of coediting this book because I believed in the project that we developed together; but equallysimplybecause of the chance to work again with Haidee.

As all sustained scholarly projects, this book has complex interconnections to other ongoing research activities that dont necessarily manifest here. That said, this book has been shaped by many conversations with scholars and archivists who helped to make its frequently daunting premise worthwhile and also manageable. Haidee would like to especially thank Dino Everett, Michael Cowan, Jonathan Kahana, Alice Lovejoy, Barbara Miller, Dana Polan, Greg Waller, and Chuck Wolfe for supportive and stimulating conversations. My Concordia colleagues are a continuing source of inspiration. Thanks especially to Luca Caminati, Kay Dickinson, Martin Lefebvre, Josh Neves, Elena Razlagova, Katie Russell, Masha Salazkina, Marc Steinberg, Jeremy Stolow, Darren Wershler, and Peter van Wyck for their daily provocations and commitment to making the university a better and more ethical place to work. Carrie Rentschler and Jonathan Sterne remain exemplars of intellectual energy and engagement. Special thanks go to Jen Holt for her end-of-project, supernatural can-do consultation sessions. Brian Real helped to speedily navigate the US National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland. This project has also benefitted from presenting parts of its overall rationale at several venues, including the Chicago Film Seminar, Northwestern University, Harvard University, the University of Southern California, the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of California Berkeley, and, closer to home, Concordia University, McGill University, and the University of Toronto. On a more personal note, thanks to Charles, Stella, and Ava for providing designs for living that make everything, all of it, better. Lastly, thanks to Lee for copiloting. I can hardly wait for our next project.