...Weihong Bao This article revisits Miriam Hansen's theory of vernacular modernism by putting it in dialogue with wartime Chongqing propaganda film theory. Comparing key points of parallel between Hansen's dual interest in the linguistic and sensorial function of cinema and Chongqing propaganda film...

... and thus a member of one of its diaspora nationalities. Despite their formal and procedural differences, both artists promoted photomontage as the premier agitational weapon of world communism and Soviet propaganda, contra the rise of documentary photography as well as various modes of realist painting...

...Brad Prager The documentary A Film Unfinished (2010), by the Israeli filmmaker Yael Hersonski, examines footage produced in 1942 that was intended for a propaganda film. The Nazis left their original production incomplete, and its fragmentary remnants are the unfinished film to which Hersonski's...

... propaganda films for the German High Command. However, he shunned live-action film sequences of the war, which were subject to heavy censorship, and instead drew on American-style cinematic animation to convey a subversive message about the war's violence and horror. Although he later became famous for his...

... operation to organize a propaganda campaign in the name of Popular Front unity during the onset of the Spanish Civil War. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 antifascism photomontage Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung Willi Münzenberg John Heartfield References Braskén Kasper...

... persuasion such as state propaganda. In this way we can trace how mass persuasion results in political action. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 caricature satire Eduard Fuchs Marxism John Heartfield References Ades Dawn . 1986 . Photomontage . London : Thames and Hudson...

...Cristina Cuevas-Wolf This essay posits that the tactical alliance in the mid-1920s between Willi Münzenberg and John Heartfield shaped the imagery of a united political front for the Communist International (Comintern). The collaboration between the Comintern's minister of propaganda for western...

... methodical innovations and insights into Nazi German propaganda. In particular, the article points to Kracauer’s concept of hypnosis and relates it to Bateson’s media theory. Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020 World War II propaganda Hitlerjunge Quex Culture and Personality...

.... 9 10  From “Degenerate Art” to “Looted Art” eventually instrumentalized it for their propaganda for the “Third Reich” pol- icy of extermination.3 Adolf Hitler and his associates did not invent the phrase degenerate art, but they adopted it, intensified it, and derived from...

.... 2015 decisionism Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf propaganda violent rhetoric Ideology in Execution: On Hitler’s Mein Kampf Albrecht Koschorke Let me preface this essay with three theses. Thesis one: the culture of the book found its ultimate...

.... At the foundation of Hitler’s rule, it seems, was a complex of feelings including hope, trust, admira- tion, and, above all, hate for the imaginary Jewish enemy. Early on Hitler him- self expressed this in his reflections on techniques of political propaganda: The broad mass of a Volk does not only...

... department and art section of Ober-Ost on the eastern front. At the end of 1917, he was stationed near Cornelia in Vilnius. His job was to make propaganda for Ger- man culture in the conquered eastern territories.5 Hildebrand organized exhibi- tions, with works by his sister among others. Here the two...

..., and to propaganda and Left politics in the Soviet Union, Weimar Germany, and western Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. The essays are rich in new archive-based knowledge and novel concep- tualizations. Thus we learn from Zervigón that Heartfi eld’s little-known early wartime work with cinema for the German...

... Sohl, “Enstehung und Verbreitung des Braunbuchs über Reichstagsbrand und Hitler- terror 1933/1934,” Jahrbuch für Geschichte 21 (1980): 289–327. Despite its affi rmative stance toward the Brown Book, Sohl’s article is the fi rst serious study of its impact. See also Klaus-Dieter Krohn, “Propaganda...

... propaganda of the Nazis since the propaganda is probably not believed.”17 In “Political Antisemitism,” delivered almost three years after the publi- cation of State Capitalism and at the height of the Holocaust, Pollock deals for the first time publicly with the status and weight of anti-Semitic...

... is broken. Henceforth, this link must become an object of belief: it is the impossible which can only be restored within a faith.”26 The overwhelming fact of the twentieth century is that, as a result of oppression, propaganda, con- formism, and horror, the world has lost the obstinacy...

... not yet come to seem the nightmare of total mental control into which it would soon be transformed. It was rather a mix of familiar techniques for coercion, on the one hand, and pedagogy, on the other—a tool “for political indoctrination” in which the “medium for this learning is propaganda...

... field cinema in Damascus and scattered file slips and newspaper clippings suggest a limited interest in film as a medium of education and propaganda in wartime, a focus for which the now-lost war archive Zettelkasten 113, with its 1,552 file slips, might have provided interesting evidence. 9 Saved...

...Figure 3. Numerous captions name Nazi propaganda as one of the crucial factors leading to the country’s annexation. Photograph by the author, courtesy of the DÖW. ...