POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Japanese Canadians, Slocan Valley, Cossacks

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Hudson Moura

Document Summary

Battleship potemkin (rus) sergei eisenstein triumph of the will (ger) leni riefenstahl. The political importance of film propaganda in the 20th century stems from the fact that visual imagery was a powerful, central force in political imagination. Words: symbols, broadsheet from a different propagandist, different order, different age, emotions (cid:1009)(cid:895) portra(cid:455)i(cid:374)g attitudes that do (cid:374)ot see(cid:373) (cid:858)(cid:272)o(cid:374)tro(cid:448)ersial(cid:859, communication channels. Propagandist => actor (who disseminates/suggests) u propagation => action u propaganda => activity/ influence public opinions u political function = must have a purpose and direction u audience = intended result. Cinema tends to be less demanding and easier to comprehend than the written or spoken word. It is the only medium of mass communication that appeals to an audience that is at the same time a mass. Elements to be concealed: its origins or sources, the interests involved, the methods employed, the content spread, the results accruing to the victims.