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Subject: Re: [OM] Re: OT now Coke, mutating to chemistry and now documentary...
From: "R. Jackson" <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:23:35 -0800
I've seen American wartime "documentaries" that portrayed Japanese in caricature form as little more than vermin with round glasses and buck teeth. There's one we saw in a class that featured Robert Conrad and Jack Webb where "Reds" were portrayed as mindless, robotic servants of evil. Persuasive films used for political purposes are frequently pretty misleading and often used to portray a group of people as less than human. That dehumanizing makes a lot of what's asked of the public during times of war more palatable.

On Nov 30, 2003, at 12:34 PM, Jerry Liles wrote:

Reifenstal's films are the best known from the Third Reich, and, as you say, have a debatable message, though I would argue the Triumph of the Will was ultimately malignant. The so-called documentaries that were unequivocally malign were those like, "The Eternal Jew". Failing to condemn them is unconscionable. They were, without doubt, evil.

Jerry Liles


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