This book, first published in 1983, brings together leading world experts on film and radio propaganda in a study which deals with each of the major powers as well as several under occupation. It examines each nations’ propaganda content and compares the various strands of output designed for different audiences.
This book, first published in 1983, brings together leading world experts on film and radio propaganda in a study which deals with each of the major powers as well as several under occupation. By examining each nations’ propaganda content and comparing its various strands of output designed for different audiences, the historian is provided with an important source of a nation’s official self-image. Total war forced governments to formulate goals consistent with the received national ideology in order to support the war effort. To this extent, much of the domestic propaganda was directed towards stimulating the population to make sacrifices with promise of a new world if the peace were won.
Part
1. Introduction
1. Propaganda in International Politics, 19191939
Philip M. Taylor Part
2. Aspects of the Allied Experience
2. The Land of
Promise: the Projection of Peace Aims in Britain Nicholas Pronay
3. French
Film Propaganda, July 1939June 1940 Rémy Pithon
4. Film Propaganda in the
Soviet Union, 19411945: Two Views Sergei Drobashenko and Peter Kenez
5.
Racial Ambiguities in American Propaganda Movies Thomas Cripps
6. Hollywood
Fights Anti-Semitism, 19401945 K.R.M. Short
7. Why We Fight: Social
Engineering for a Democratic Society at War David Culbert
8. Propaganda at
Radio Luxembourg: 19441945 Erik Barnouw Part
3. Propaganda in Fascist
Europe
9. Nazi Wartime Newsreel Propaganda David Welch
10. Italy: the
Regime, the Nation and the Film Industry, an Introduction David Ellwood
11.
Italian Propaganda Films: 19401943 Gianni Rondolino
12. The Struggle for the
Control of French Minds, 19401944 Pierre Sorlin
13. Vichy Cinema and
Propaganda Elizabeth Strebel Part
4. Japanese Propaganda
14. Japanese
Domestic Radio and Cinema Propaganda, 19371945: an Overview Gordon Daniels
15. Japanese Overseas Broadcasting: a Personal View Namikawa Ry
K.R.M. Short