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The present study explores the United States governmental and military institutions’ trends in militarizing the entertainment industry epithet Hollywood to manufacture consent and dissent in American public opinion vis-à-vis war on terror and prompting the American model of democracy. The study, also, embarks on a historical survey to provide an informative and comprehensible scope on public opinion, its formalisms, mechanisms and notably its manifestations in American socio-political life with reference to salience and intensity. Furthermore, the study reveals the longstanding collaboration between Hollywood and US government’s departments and military institutions and its vital role in rallying support, sustaining favorable views, and prompting endorsements for the government, the military and their actions through the positive depiction the US, its socioeconomic models and its military, while propagating prejudicial stereotypes that perpetually vilifies ‘the Other’. Moreover, the study opts for content analysis and film analysis methodology to analyze several films to prove that Hollywood deliberately constructs films to brainwash and manipulate American public opinion in regard to war on terrorism, and democracy promotion. Finally, the outcome of study is a testament of the reel power that attests Hollywood is wielding the most sophisticated propaganda and disinformation campaign in American history that influence, shape and define public opinion vis-à-vis salient issues in the American political life mainly war on terrorism.
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