Hearts and MinesFrom Katy Perry training alongside US Marines in a music video, to the global box office mastery of the US military supported Transformers franchise, to the explosion of war games such as Call of Duty, its clear that the US security state is a dominant force in media culture. But is the ubiquity of cultural products that glorify the security state a new phenomenon? Or have Uncle Sam and Hollywood been friends for a long time? Hearts and Mines examines