Product Description

Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Hitler and Goebbels all regarded cinema as their most important weapon for mass political propaganda. This new, revised and expanded edition of 'Film Propaganda' examines the ways in which cinema was used for political purposes by two of the most highly politicised societies in twentieth-century European history. 'Film Propaganda' is still to date the only book in English to compare these two cinemas and examine both in depth. Richard Taylor demonstrates how cinema was brought under political control in each country and goes on to explore the themes and stereotypes projected by the feature films that were produced. In so doing, he highlights the means used by the authorities to condition and control the filmgoer as individual spectator and as member of a mass audience.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #163320 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Richard Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Politics, Swansea University, Wales. His publications include 'The Eisenstein Reader', 'The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents,1896-1939', 'Inside the Film Factory' and 'The Battleship Potemkin: The Film Companion' (I.B.Tauris,2000). He is editor of the 'Sergei Eisenstein Selected Works' series (British Film Institute)and of 'KINO: The Russian Cinema Series', published by I.B.Tauris.

Customer Reviews

As inadeqate to the subject as is conceivable
The author is "emeritus" Professor etc.

His book exemplifies everything that is conceptually uninformed, ploddingly spent some time in a library, that sustains people in academic careers of a certain kind.

If he's heard of Adorno, he probably thinks it's a make of car.

Awful book.