Image: Professor Roger Stahl has won a research grant from the Willson Center for Humanities and the Arts to study the Pentagon’s Entertainment Liaison Office. This office reviews proposals for movies and television programs to decide which programs will have access to military equipment and venues for filming. This review and decision power enables the Pentagon to influence scripts and production in potentially consequential ways. Dr. Stahl’s research group has access to 25,000 internal documents shedding new light on the scale and character of this process.
