I don't know about film, but the CIA was (somewhat) famously involved in defining and propagating the style of midcentury creative writing[1]. "More Hemingway a

I don't know about film, but the CIA was (somewhat) famously involved in defining and propagating the style of midcentury creative writing[1]. "More Hemingway and less Dos Passos" as this article puts it[2]. [1]: https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/cia-helped-shaped-american-creative-writing-famous-iowa-writers-workshop.html https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/cia-helped-shaped-americ... [2]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x3vg3/how-the-cia-turned-american-literature-into-a-content-farm https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x3vg3/how-the-cia-turned-am...