Film is one of the most influential modern mediums, Andrew Tudor (2013, 139-140) elaborates on the influence media can have on a general population, “The media tell the man in the mass who he is - they give him identity”. Throughout history there’s been many clear examples of the importance Film had during WWI and WWII. Hitler discusses the use of War Propaganda in his book Mein Kampf, he expresses the importance of the Art of Cinema in influencing his ideologies. “These films would be so interesting that everybody would itch to see it …He would have the youth and the people on his side.” (1925, 148). According to the Oxford Dictionary of English (Oxford University Press 2010) ‘Culture’ is defined as “The ideas, customs, and social behaviour
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Researcher Erwin Leiser claimed that Eberhard Taubert’s Anti-Semitic film The Eternal Jew was influential enough to turn “innocent citizens into indulgent mass murderers” (Hornsh⊘j-M⊘ller and Culbert 1992). Although this statement by Erwin Leiser was more in the context of criticism towards the film and its Anti-Semitic explicitness, his thoughts were somewhat true, researchers Helmut Blobner and Herbert Holba found evidence that members of the Hitler Youth Organization murdered an unsuspecting Jew by trampling the innocent to death as they crossed paths with the victim after the viewing of Jew Süß (Jackboot Cinema 1962).The various Nazi propagandist films undeniably played a pivotal role in creating the German populations affirmation towards Nazism, but these Films that vigorously promoted the National Socialist ideology also influenced the mentality and actions of the German …show more content…
Arguing that the more you view media, the more you will believe in the social aspects present in the film’s "world” (Mehraj, Bhat and Mehraj 2015, 58). The Motion Pictures created during World War I such as the 1918 films Claws of the Hun and The Hun Within suggested that the war was on the footsteps of the United States, influencing the United States general population to fear for their safety but accept and agree with the decision to go to war. Like Nazi Germany, the United States understood the importance of propaganda during WWII, the Burea of Motion Pictures which was a child agency of the U.S. Government was created. The BMP played an important role on influencing the films that were chosen to be distributed among the United States. In the BMP’s July 1942 “Manual for the Motion Picture Industry” (which was to be taken into account if a Film production wanted to have the chance of being distributed.) begins with the question of “Will this Film help win the war?” (Slocum 2005,
Researcher Erwin Leiser claimed that Eberhard Taubert’s Anti-Semitic film The Eternal Jew was influential enough to turn “innocent citizens into indulgent mass murderers” (Hornsh⊘j-M⊘ller and Culbert 1992). Although this statement by Erwin Leiser was more in the context of criticism towards the film and its Anti-Semitic explicitness, his thoughts were somewhat true, researchers Helmut Blobner and Herbert Holba found evidence that members of the Hitler Youth Organization murdered an unsuspecting Jew by trampling the innocent to death as they crossed paths with the victim after the viewing of Jew Süß (Jackboot Cinema 1962).The various Nazi propagandist films undeniably played a pivotal role in creating the German populations affirmation towards Nazism, but these Films that vigorously promoted the National Socialist ideology also influenced the mentality and actions of the German …show more content…
Arguing that the more you view media, the more you will believe in the social aspects present in the film’s "world” (Mehraj, Bhat and Mehraj 2015, 58). The Motion Pictures created during World War I such as the 1918 films Claws of the Hun and The Hun Within suggested that the war was on the footsteps of the United States, influencing the United States general population to fear for their safety but accept and agree with the decision to go to war. Like Nazi Germany, the United States understood the importance of propaganda during WWII, the Burea of Motion Pictures which was a child agency of the U.S. Government was created. The BMP played an important role on influencing the films that were chosen to be distributed among the United States. In the BMP’s July 1942 “Manual for the Motion Picture Industry” (which was to be taken into account if a Film production wanted to have the chance of being distributed.) begins with the question of “Will this Film help win the war?” (Slocum 2005,