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- One Hundred Years of Cinema
Aug 5, 2020 · To influence public opinion in favor of the war, the U.S produced films, commissioned colorful posters, published pamphlets and recruited everyday Americans ...
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During the First Red Scare, the American film industry capitalized on and amplified public fears regarding Bolshevism, weaving it into numerous narratives th...
- Shaping Popular Opinion
- A Different Kind of 'War Hero'
- 'Scaring The Hell Out of Americans'
Films were, and are, the perfect vehicle for shaping popular opinion, largely because seeing a movie provides such a galvanizing, shared experience. In the 1940s, "something like 90 million Americans [were] going to movies every week," said Dan O'Meara, a political science professor at the University of Quebec and the co-author of Movies, Myth and ...
Though he never saw combat himself, John Wayne was a kind of Second World War hero, starring in countless films including, They Were Expendable and Back to Bataan. "Americans can tell the story of World War II in a way that makes them feel good about themselves. British people are the same. We love hearing stories about World War II because we like...
Where previously every major war involving the United States would be followed by dramatic cuts to military spending, there was after Vietnam the ascendancy of the idea of a "national security state," one that needed to stay on high alert, says O'Meara. "And this began to inculcate within the American public this notion that: 'Oh my God, there is a...
Jan 23, 2015 · Triumph of the Will (1935) Although it predated the war by four years, Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is widely regarded as the standard-bearer of Nazi-era propaganda films. The 104-minute documentary focuses on a speech Adolf Hitler delivers to a crowd of 700,000 party faithful at a massive 1934 rally in Nuremburg.
A film about the Auxiliary Territorial Service, a women's formation. The Battle of London. Jack Kemp. Christmas Under Fire. Charles Hasse and Harry Watt. Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. Ferry Pilot. Pat Jackson. Fighting Fields.
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May 13, 2016 · The film is a fictional depiction of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era in America. It serves as a testament to the prejudices of American audiences during the early 20th Century. Amongst the film’s various racist themes, the portrayal of African American slaves as violent heathens and the Ku Klux Klan as heroes riding in to save the day, continues to polarise viewers.
