The Power of Film Propaganda
Myth or Reality
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2004
276 pages
978-0-8264-3245-2 (ISBN)
Description
Explores five case studies in Britain, the USSR, Germany and Italy to determine whether or not propaganda films reached the audiences at which they were targeted, and where they did, whether the films made the impact on those audiences that the propagandists had expected.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-3245-2 (9780826432452)
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Nicholas Reeves taught history to undergraduate students in London for 30 years.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Official Film Propaganda in Britain during the First World War
- Official propaganda and wartime public opinion
- Official film propaganda - the first 18 months
- Growing problems in the later months of the war
- The films and their audience
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2 Film Propaganda in the Soviet Union, 1917-1928
- Lenin and propaganda
- Expectations for film propaganda
- The achievements of the Civil War years
- The 1920s
- The films and their audience
- Mounting criticism
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3 National Socialist Film Propaganda in Germany, 1933-1945
- Ideology into propaganda
- The organization of propaganda
- The German film industry
- Gleichschaltung
- Film production costs and profitability
- The films and their audience
- Images of leadership
- Anti-Semitic film propaganda
- Film propaganda in favour of the policy of 'euthanasia action'
- Images of war
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4 Official Film Propaganda in Britain during the Second World War
- Planning for wartime propaganda
- The Mol in the first two years of the war
- A new approach to propaganda
- British cinema on the eve of the war
- The Mol Films Division's policy for wartime film propaganda
- The films and their audience
- Newsreels
- Documentary films
- Feature films
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5 Italian Neorealist Films
- Fascism, war and liberation
- Fascist cinema and the origins of neorealism
- The neorealist films and their audience
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- General Index
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- Index of Film Titles
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