Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany

Professor Richard Taylor

Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
30 July 2009
Pages
256
ISBN
9781860641671

Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany

Professor Richard Taylor

Making use of, in particular, the flood of recent material which has emerged from the former USSR, this is a revised and enlarged edition of a text on propaganda and film in Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. The author examines how each government used the cinema’s potential for mass political propaganda, and analyzes and discusses films which exemplify important aspects of propaganda in process, and which are available for viewing. New in this edition are examinations of two classic Stalinist films: Grigori Alexandrov’s musical comedy, The Circus (1936), which celebrated in spectacular Hollywood fashion the supposed superiority of the Soviet way of life and new constitution; and The Fall of Berlin (1949), which by contrast is a vast-scale and overtly propagandist paean to Stalin’s pivotal role in World War II, and represents the apotheosis of the cult of personality. Taylor has also updated his coverage of Nazi Germany, with fresh illustrative material and a revised bibliography.

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