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By Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit,Marcelline Block

ISBN-10: 1442261013

ISBN-13: 9781442261013

In occupied France, the Nazis pursued competitive, tightly orchestrated measures designed to monopolize the French marketplace and foster agitation opposed to americans, Jews, Communists, and others. The documentary movie used to be one device of propaganda hired through the Nazi occupiers, in addition to the Vichy executive and collaborationists. approximately 200 of these documentaries were restored via the French movie Archives.

Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit’s Propaganda Documentaries in France: 1940–1944 is the 1st quantity particularly dedicated to nonfiction propaganda motion pictures allotted in France in the course of the “dark years” of the German career. This e-book offers a concise review of Vichy and German movie guidelines, together with the acquisition of an intensive community of motion picture homes, a lot of that have been expropriated from Jewish proprietors. additionally, renowned prewar American and French function motion pictures have been banned, whereas theaters have been flooded with propagandist titles. Bertin-Maghit additionally illustrates how ideological priorities and political negotiations performed out in either topical documentaries and weekly newsreels, juxtaposing Vichy’s integrationist propaganda with German-sponsored documentaries of agitation and exclusion.

While documentaries are the first concentration of this paintings, the writer additionally addresses other kinds of propaganda, equivalent to newsreels and posters. showing in English for the 1st time—and that includes a filmography of 178 restored works—Propaganda Documentaries in France: 1940–1944 is a provocative and wide-ranging paintings of background and cinema that would be of curiosity to movie students and historians in addition to sociologists and political scientists.

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