Matthew Alford

Alford has written feature articles for The Guardian,[1] New Statesman,[2] Independent,[3] Filmfax,[4] Fortean Times,[5] and Morning Star.[6] Subjects have included feature films, pop music, censorship, PR, UFOs, conspiracy theories, and Noam Chomsky.

In 2019, RT reported that Alford's feature about omissions in mainstream media coverage of Western foreign policy was itself dropped by the commissioning magazine on the morning it was due to emerge. The magazine was left unnanmed. The piece appeared later across alternative media with an explanation of the edits that had been demanded.[7][8][9]

In 2014, Alford produced The Writer with No Hands, a documentary that followed his research into the 1997 disappearance of Hollywood screenwriter Gary Devore.[10][11]

The Media Education Foundation is cited as distributor for Theatres of Command, a documentary co-produced by Alford and based on a 2017 book National Security Cinema he co-authored about the role of the US military and CIA in re-writing film and TV.[12]

He appeared on an extended interview for Le Media[13] and as a talking head for features by Al Jazeera,[14] RT,[15][16] Canal Plus, and CBC.[17]

In 2020, he performed a solo stage version of The Writer with No Hands at the Edinburgh Free Fringe online and played himself as a "mediocre stand-up comedian" in a short docufiction in which he is recruited by MI5 to kidnap the US President.[18]

• Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy. London: Pluto Press, 2010. ISBN 9780745329826.[19]
  • 2018. Expanded French edition by Editions Critiques.
• The Writer with No Hands (2016).
• National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood (CreateSpace, 2017). With Tom Secker.
  • 2020. Expanded French edition by Investig'Action.
• Union Jackboot: What Your Media and Professors Don't Tell You About British Foreign Policy (CreateSpace, 2018). With T.J Coles.

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• University of Bath Profile
• Open Comedy Profile