Word: propagandas
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...loves death. Hitler, naturally, thinks the Germans have betrayed him and is willing to let them all die in a great Götterdämmerung while he passes out poison capsules to his circle. This leads to the most horrifying sequence in the film: Magda Goebbels, wife of the notorious Propaganda Minister, poisoning all six of her children because she does not want them to grow up in a world without National Socialism. This act, a blend of romantic and ideological fervor, is almost unbearable to witness. But it stresses what this riveting film most wants to say: that perversion...
...main element, because it’s a silent film, is hyperbolic; the reality, of course, is much more complex,” says Miller. “I am intrigued how cinema is used to reduce complex issues into cliché soundbites, how it acts as propaganda for a very simple vision of America...
Alternately celebrated as a filmic masterpiece and reviled as racist propaganda, The Birth of a Nation has forged its place in America’s cinematic, social, and political history. Originally titled The Clansman, after Reverend Thomas Dixon Jr.’s 1905 play on which the film is based, the film’s adopted title does little to hide its true subject, a three-hour epic of the Civil War, post-war Southern Reconstruction, and development of the Ku Klux Klan...
Appealing to nostalgia for the days of the Old South, The Birth of a Nation was, and still is, used as KKK propaganda to recruit new members. The emotions evoked were so strong that Klan membership peaked in the ten years following the film’s cinematic release...
Civil-affairs soldiers rebuild public utilities and other civilian services in war-torn areas, and psyops specialists are in charge of propaganda, such as leaflets and pro-U.S. broadcasts aimed at winning the "hearts and minds" of the citizens. Most of these soldiers are reservists, but of the some 8,700 listed on the rolls, almost 1,200 are what senior Army officers call ghosts--reservists who don't have enough training to be deployed overseas or who have not attended monthly drills in about a year. The shortfall has been made up by sending qualified reservists overseas more...