Matthew Alford

Matthew Alford is a British author.

Background

Alford was awarded a doctorate by the University of Bath in 2008. His thesis used Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's Propaganda Model to examine contemporary Hollywood.[1]

Journalism

Alford has written articles for UK newspapers like The Guardian,[2] New Statesman,[3] and Independent.[4] He has also written for Fortean Times[5]

Subjects have included Hollywood cinema, pop music, censorship, conspiracy theories, and the political thought of Noam Chomsky.

Alford has been interviewed by stations such as Canal Plus, Al Jazeera,[6] and the CBC.[7]

Alford's first book Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy was published in 2010. The Scotsman wrote that it provides a "useful precis [of] explicit links between major movie studios, American political interests and powerful lobbies, most notably the arms industry" on films such as Top Gun, Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down'.[8]

Alford produced and appeared in the 2014 documentary The Writer with No Hands, which followed his investigation into the 1997 disappearance of Hollywood screenwriter Gary Devore.[9][10] It premiered at Hot Docs.[11]

In 2020, he presented a stage version of The Writer with No Hands at the online Edinburgh Fringe and played himself as a "mediocre stand-up comedian" in a short docufiction in which he is recruited by Jeremy Corbyn to kidnap the US President.[12]

His co-produced documentary Theaters of War is due for release in 2021 and is based partly on his co-written book National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood.[1]

Books
  • Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy. London: Pluto Press, 2010. ISBN 9780745329826.[8]
    • 2018. Expanded French edition published by Editions Critiques.
  • The Writer with No Hands (Createspace, 2016).
  • National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood (CreateSpace, 2017). With Tom Secker.
    • 2021. Expanded French edition published by Investig'Action.
  • Union Jackboot: What Your Media and Professors Don't Tell You About British Foreign Policy (CreateSpace, 2018). With T.J Coles.

References
  1. "Matthew Alford". The Conversation. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  2. "Matthew Alford - The Guardian". The Guardian.
  3. "Writers". www.newstatesman.com.
  4. "Matthew Alford". The Independent.
  5. "FT266 - FT Covers". ft.gjovaag.com.. "FT248 - FT Covers". ft.gjovaag.com.
  6. "Covert operations: How the CIA works with Hollywood". www.aljazeera.com.
  7. https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/mythsonscreen
  8. "Book review: Reel Power". www.scotsman.com. The Scotsman. 4 October 2010. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  9. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/gq95k9/the-writer-with-no-hands-gary-devore-matthew-alford Vice Magazine
  10. White, Mike. "Special Report: The Writer with No Hands (2017)".
  11. "Writer With No Hands - Hot Docs". www.hotdocs.ca. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  12. "The Feelgood Film of the Apocalypse: An Interview with Derek Swannson – Star & Crescent".
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