The war on terror institutionalized fiction writers as national-security imaginers.

Evidence

In the War on Terror, it seemed, the erstwhile inability of security bureaucracies to imagine potential threat scenarios might be remedied by drawing on the creativity of Hollywood scriptwriters and right-wing pulp novelists. What was needed, it was thought, was to get inventive in conjuring up potential threats, as well as breaking down pre-existing assumptions of how best to prevent them. Hollywood was elevated in its role and became as significant as Arlington, Fort Meade, and Langley in the landscape of the US national-security state. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 765

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Connects to Homeland/fiction shaping counterterrorism policy claims from ch.40 and to Kumar’s state-Hollywood fusion point.

Related

• The War on Terror formally recruited Hollywood into the national security state (similarity 0.92)
• US national security policy turned to Hollywood and fiction to imagine terror threats (similarity 0.91)
• The security state formally recruited fiction writers to imagine threats (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• The security state formally recruited fiction writers to imagine threats #corroborates (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 765
• US national security policy recruited fiction writers to imagine threats #corroborates (0.92)