Dr. Tricia Jenkins, assistant professor of Film-TV-Digital Media, has had her new book, The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television, released by the University of Texas Press. Her book offers the first full-scale investigation of the relationship between the CIA and the film and television industries.

 

Jenkins' resesarch draws on numerous interviews with the CIA’s public affairs staff, operations officers and historians, as well as with Hollywood technical consultants, producers and screenwriters who have worked with the Agency, to uncover the nature of the CIA’s role in Hollywood. In particular, she delves into the Agency’s and its officers’ involvement in the production of The Agency, In the Company of Spies, Alias, The Recruit, The Sum of All Fears, Enemy of the State, Syriana and The Good Shepherd, among others. Her work reveals the significant influence that the CIA now wields in Hollywood and raises important and troubling questions about the ethics and legality of a government agency using popular media to manipulate its public image.

Her book is available for order at University of Texas Press.