Propaganda film

People have very different opinions about celebrity endorsement. Sue Jozui in her excerpt argues that rules and guidelines should be legislated for advertising using celebrities. Jozui supports her argument by first describing multiple examples of celebrity endorsed products. She continues by explaining how the audience is influenced by the celebrity. Jozui’s purpose is to convince consumers to boycott this type of advertisement so that the consumer is not insulted or misled. She establishes a…

In Matthew A. Baum’s book Soft News Goes to War, he asserts that people with little to no concern in politics get their information about politics from soft news-news with the main purpose of entertaining but also provides some information on political events. Baum insists that nowadays, newscasters are becoming more capable of sparking people's’ interest in politics through entertainment, which results in non-political buffs learning some recent news about politics. He states that this could…

Viewers tend to watch news channels which the individual believes rather than channels do not believe in because people do not want their opinions being challenged. As the viewer watches tv or news channels, the viewer does not want to spend hours on the internet searching or flipping through different news channels trying to look for the true story. News reporters know several different ways to get to the viewer, emotional appeal being one of many. Reporters are convincing with words to get to…

Our current propaganda in the United States is targeted mostly at the upcoming election and the candidates involved, while in the past with the Nazi propaganda, it was more targeted towards stopping Hitler and the Nazis and protecting the US. Though both of which in comparison to the propaganda in the Hunger Games are drastically similar, and drastically different as in the Hunger Games the rebel side propaganda was targeted towards stopping the Capitol, and the Capitol propaganda was to stop…

The editorial page of a newspaper, magazine, or another source is a public forum to express one’s view of a newsworthy topic to a diverse audience. An editorial presents the writer’s opinion on a topic to inform or influence the reader regarding the issue, as well as provides evidence to justify their position and suggestions to resolve the issue (Zarza, Tan, Chan, & Ali, 2015). Poorly written editorials should not be published without revisions, because the purpose of the editorial is lost in…

Reading Rosenberg’s thoughts in her chapter “A Good Sailor” she once again seemed to take more of a top down approach, although she studied many people her main focus was on the men who made people disappear. I believe that this provided a unique prospective of how one looks at the events that have taken place. Like she had stated in her chapter on El Salvador “The Laboratory” many journalist focus on the most obvious victim but not on the men and women of a higher social status or in this case…

highly emotional instrument, while percussion is dynamic and determines the pace of acton. String instruments create background sounds that have been widely used in movies, that’s why they have a great power to create mental images associated with film…

In Learning To Love The (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media, James Fallows expertly gives a general view of what the “New Media” is and how it affects the world today. Fallows discusses media’s change over time, the dying art of journalism, and how citizens of today must “[face] the inevitability of the shift to infotainment.” According to Fallows, the new media is difficult to understand, because of how contradictory it is. Although citizens complain about the lack of “real” information,…

Animal Farm is a book about the russian war represented through animal figures. Through the book there are many propaganda techniques being used. Propaganda is the government's techniques to fill the uneducated people. There are three forms of propaganda that have been used in Animal Farm. The three techniques are Name Calling, Card Stacking, and Glittering Generalities. Name Calling is when someone uses negative words against an enemy. Card Stacking is when a politician or businessmen stack…

It is a stone-hard fact that people at the top of entertainment, politics, and consumer culture got there by deceiving their audiences with stretched-out truths and made-up stories. They understand that in order to be successful in gaining followers, one must know that the most important skill in the art of entertainment is artifice. It is crucial for us, the audience, to recognize artifice used in political theater, consumer culture, and the entertainment business so that we can not be as…