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By: Alexandra Rosales, Amanda Skaja,
Eric Peterson, Hannah Storrer, Justin
Stone, Nathaniel Ley
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Propaganda: in advertising and public
relations, a communication strategy that tries
to manipulated public opinion to gain support
for a special issue, program, or policy.
Amanda Skaja
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While creating a piece of propaganda the
public relations groups have to consider the
culture, this includes the time period and
location.
War-time propaganda timeline.
Amanda Skaja
Hannah Storrer
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Provided a crucial instrument for acquiring and
maintaining power, and for the implementation of
their policies, including the pursuit of total war.
Hitler and many of the higher Nazi leaders
harbored racism and wished to begin the
extermination of races they deemed inferior.
Although there was some discontent between the
German Jews and other Germans already, it was
still necessary to convince the German
population that action was necessary against
them. This anti-Semitic material formed the
second main body of German propaganda.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hEzs7x5aEM
The overriding theme of the film was the return
of Germany as a great power, with Hitler as the
True German Leader who will bring glory to the
nation.
The movie had more than 30,000 Nazi supporters
The people respected their leader, and listened
to the things they were told. Which was similar to
what happen and past wars.
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Propaganda was different because the
German audiences were continually
reminded of the struggle of the Nazi Party and
Germany against foreign enemies and
internal enemies, especially Jews.
Justin Stone
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http://www.archive.org/details/ItsEvery1945
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SIMILARITIES
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Used to motivate people
in the war effort
Visual references to how
brutal the war can be
Suggesting ways you can
put forth your effort to
help our troops
Presents our side and not
their side as well
DIFFERENCES
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Materials that can be
used to send to our
troops for combat
The fact that we can
send materials for war
not just luxuries for
them
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Propaganda used by the Allied forces is simliar
because it creates this love for America in that
you can do your part to help us keep our lifestyle
America has always presented our Propaganda in
ways that are very biased in manner, showing
that we are suffering in this war and giving
reasons why we are at war in the first place
The visual references to war we use has always
been our opponent doing bad things to us and
then how we are victorious in certain instances
because of the effort of people here at home
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The main difference is that we can actually
send materials used in war
We can send things for our troops to create
explosives and weapons controversial to how
in the other wars since we have just sent
money or luxuries to our troops to make sure
their stint is a comfortable as it can be
Soviet Film Propaganda
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Unique Qualities of Soviet Film Propaganda
Serious
Contradictory
Was the primary function of film in the Soviet Union
Serious Soviets
Soviet Propaganda was very serious and had a stronger than usual portion of
negative propaganda.
The initial revolution was a mass uprising of lower classes, it was completely
critical to
get the masses unified, a failure in public opinion would have been
fatal. Lenin saw film as one of the most important tools of propaganda, because of its
ability to convey large amounts of information quickly, especially to the
undereducated.
many
“Common Enemy” was the name of the game in the revolution, it unified
disparate factions by giving them a foe in common.
Living conditions did not greatly improve when the revolution happened,
making films
depicting how happy and great everything was impractical.
A population that has revolted once is very difficult to keep from revolting
again when
the new regime fails to deliver, a large enough public opinion
failure would have been, indeed WAS fatal.
Contradiction
Soviet Propaganda had a great tendency to contradict itself. Post
revolution propaganda films were very directly focused on single
aspects of messages.
Revolution and submission to authority. The idea of rising up
against capitalist oppressors around the world while submitting the
authority of the totalitarian leaders of the communist party. This lead
to sharp changes in the message of propaganda between foreign and
local focus, and between pre and post revolution film.
A compassionate regime with death camps. Post revolution
soviet propaganda liked to claim the compassionate goals of the
party, the love for the working man especially. At the same time the
government used the threat of forced labor and death camps to keep
the more restive citizens in line. This led to various aspects of Soviet
society being completely taboo in film, leaving lots of unsupported
messages in the lighter soviet propaganda pieces.
Some people are more equal than others. A regime that claimed that
all men are equal had great trouble explaining why they ran the show
while others worked the fields. Soviet film therefore focused on how
great everyone was at their current job.
Prevalence of Propaganda in film
The film of the soviet union was so highly censored that almost
any film produced during the era could be considered at least
partially propaganda.
This gave soviet propaganda film a weird dichotomy between
the propogandized entertainment and the pure propaganda.
Common Themes Shared by Most Propaganda and Soviet Propaganda
The primary focus of most propaganda is at least some form of political unity, and
soviet propaganda takes that to the extreme. WORKERS UNITE.
One of the oldest theories of propaganda is fear. Soviet propaganda had huge
amounts of fear in it, the Tsar is an evil dictator who will kill us all, the capitalists will
starve us with their greed, the Americans will nuke us, etc.
The soviet union’s propaganda was very similar war propaganda regardless of
whether they were officially at war with someone for its entire existence. When
comparing soviet film propaganda with another nations, the best correlations are
usually drawn between that nations wartime propaganda.
Because soviet propaganda was so warlike, it is hardly surprising that
dehumanization of enemies was a core theory. Capitalists, tsarists, Nazis, post
revolution revolutionaries were all treated in propaganda as inhuman, in much the
same way German propaganda talked about Jews or American propaganda talked
about Nazis and Japanese during WW2.
 The Vietnam War is a classic example of America's propaganda
system.
 During the Vietnam War, the U.S. propaganda system did its job
partially but not entirely.
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 Media groups making posters
 Newspapers, Television, Poster, Propaganda...
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 Many artists wrote anti-war songs,
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Vietnam War Proaganda
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