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Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm

Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm


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Since its release in 1954, scholars have been aware of the Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement in the making of the controversial animated motion picture adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. In Orwell Subverted, Daniel Leab gives an authoritative and well-documented account of the CIA’s powerful influence on the film. Recently, a number of works have been written—notably, those by Frances Stoner Saunders and Tony Shaw—that make reference to the underlying governmental control surrounding Animal Farm. Yet there is still much speculation and confusion as to the depth of the CIA’s interference. Leab continues where these authors left off, exploring the CIA’s dominant hand through extensive research and by giving fascinating details of the agency’s overt and subtle influences on the making of the film. Leab’s thorough investigating makes use of sources that have been excluded in past accounts, such as CIA papers retrieved through the Freedom of Information Act and material from the Orwell Archive. He also incorporates the testimonials of animators John Halas and Joy Batchelor and, most significantly, the previously unexplored archive documents of Animal Farm producer Louis de Rochemont.

Table of Contents:
Contents Foreword by Peter Davison, OBE Preface Acknowledgments 1. Orwell and Animal Farm 2. OPC, the Sponsoring Agency 3. The Producer, Louis de Rochemont 4. Genesis, and Getting Right with Sonia Orwell 5. The Animators, Halas and Batchelor 6. Creating Animal Farm, the Movie 7. Envisioning a Politically Correct Film Version of Animal Farm 8. The Politics of Filming Animal Farm 9. Finalizing a Politically Correct Film Version of Animal Farm 10. Reception of the Film 11. The Afterlife of the Film and Its Creators 12. Propaganda and Propagandists Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Daniel J. Leab is Professor of History at Seton Hall University. He is the author of several books, including "I Was a Communist for the FBI": The Unhappy Life and Times of Matt Cvetic (Penn State, 2000).

Review :
“What emerges in this book is a fascinating study of the complex relationship between the political and cultural imperatives that go into the shaping of a single film. It is difficult to see any other account displacing Leab’s as the definitive historical account of its production and reception. There are many monographs on individual films, but few that demonstrate this level of detail.” —James Chapman, University of Leicester “A first-rate book. Orwell Subverted breaks entirely new ground in its thorough treatment of the role of the American filmmaker Louis de Rochemont in the story of the filming and distribution of Animal Farm.” —John Rodden, University of Texas “The book has all the suspense of a thriller, though the final chapter lacks that genre’s satisfactory tying off of all loose ends. Nevertheless, this is such a thorough, convincing, and entertaining telling of its chosen tale that it seems unlikely to be readily superseded.” —Ina Bertrand Screening the Past “Leab, editor of the journal American Communist History and author of I Was a Communist for the FBI and many articles on Hollywood’s Cold War films, knows this period well. His thorough research uncovered correspondence and financial information in archives in both the United States and England that allowed him to compile the most complete account to date of the film’s production.” —Susan Ryan Cineaste


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780271029795
  • Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 454 gr
  • ISBN-10: 027102979X
  • Publisher Date: 15 Nov 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm
  • Width: 152 mm


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