By: Alexandra Rosales, Amanda Skaja, Eric Peterson, Hannah

Storrer, Justin Stone, Nathaniel Ley

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

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

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.

Hannah Storrer

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.

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.

http://www.archive.org/details/ItsEvery1945

Justin Stone

SIMILARITIES

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

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

Justin Stone

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

Justin Stone

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

Justin Stone

Soviet Film Propaganda

Eric Peterson

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.

“Common Enemy” was the name of the game in the revolution, it unified many 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.

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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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