Matthew Alford

Dr. Matthew Alford is a writer, speaker, and producer specialising in propaganda, power, and global politics.

General Election, 2024

The Guardian

• "District 9 Was Lucky To Avoid A Close Encounter With the Pentagon" (2009)
• " An Offer They Couldn't Refuse: The CIA In Hollywood" (2008)
• "Chomsky Cracks Me Up" (2008)

The Independent

• "Childish Gambino shows pop music can be powerfully political despite censorship" (2019)
• "Washington DCs role behind the scenes in Hollywood goes deeper than you think" (2017).

New Statesman

• "The Power Behind The Screen" (2009)

Morning Star

• "How We Dodged The Mushroom Cloud in 2024" (2024)
• "Dr Strangelove and the Seven Dwarfs" (2024)
• "The Persecutuion of Julian Assange" (2023)
• "Entertainment or Propaganda? Washington's Insidious Grip On The Arts" (2023)
• "Liberal Derangement and the New World Order" (2023)
• "The Article the Media Didn't Want You To Read" (2021)
• "How Britain's Most Powerful institutions are Hijacking Social Justice Rhetoric" (2020)
• "Media Lens: Twenty Years of Asking Difficult Questions" (2021)
• "Time To Rage Against The Machine?" (2021)
• "The Fake News We Should Really Fear" (2020)

Fortean Times

• "Hollywood Hitmen (Cover Story): Black helicopters, underground bases, laser weapons, and the mysterious death of Arnold Schwarzenegger's screenwriter. Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham ask what really happened to Gary Devore". FT266. ft.gjovaag.com
• "The Lies Are Out There - How the US government and Hollywood combined to create the flying saucer movie". FT248. ft.gjovaag.com

Research

• Tom Secker and Matthew Alford 'New Evidence for the Surprisingly Significant Propaganda Role of the Central Intelligence Agency and Department of Defense in the Screen Entertainment Industry' Critical Sociology, November 2017, Pages 1-13
• Tom Secker and Matthew Alford 'Why are the Pentagon and the CIA in Hollywood?' American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Volume 76, Issue 2, March 2017, Pages 381–404
• Matthew Alford, "The Political Impact of the Department of Defense on Hollywood Cinema", Quarterly Journal of Film and Video, 30th January 2016.
• Matthew Alford, "Why Not a Propaganda Model for Hollywood?", in Philip Hammond (ed), Screens of Terror (Arima, 2011).
• Robbie Graham and Matthew Alford, "A History of Government Management of UFO Perceptions Through Film and Television", 49th Parallel, Spring 2011.

Books

• Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy. London: Pluto Press, 2010.

2018. French edition with new introduction by the author. Hollywood Propaganda, Cinéma Hollywoodien et Hégémonie Américaine (Éditions Critiques).

2023. Final Cut (Éditions Critiques). French edition with new preface by the author.

• National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood (CreateSpace, 2017). With Tom Secker.

2021. Expanded French edition. L'Empire Vous Divertit: Comment la CIA et le Pentagone Utilisent Hollywood (Investig'Action).

• Union Jackboot: What Your Media And Professors Won't Tell You About British Foreign Policy (Createspace 2021). With TJ Coles.

Films

• Theaters of War (2022) (co-producer)
• The Writer With No Hands (2014) (producer)

Interviews

• Synaesthesia Journal, [1], 2013.

Images

Morning Star sample

TV Interview

Feature Article

Commentary: Dr. Strangelove (2024)

Front Cover, Fortean Times