Word: propaganda
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...crane. In 1933 he saw American special-effects pioneer Willis O'Brien's newly released King Kong. "I thought to myself, 'I will someday make a monster movie like that,'" Tsuburaya said years later. First, however, came the horror story of World War II, which he spent laboring on propaganda films. His scale-model re-enactment of the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing was so convincing that it was passed off as genuine in a postwar documentary by U.S. occupation authorities...
...soldier barks out. Well, whatever it is, it’s giving me a fear-boner. Which is a good thing. National Treasure: Book Of Secrets TRAILER TRASH Even though “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” sounds like the latest piece of flag-waving propaganda for the “Proud to be an American” crowd, the film actually has a lot to teach us about other cultures—if the trailer is any indication. It begins in Britain, where, it seems, everything is different. For example, eye contact has different connotations. Here...
Last May, Armenian studies professor James R. Russell was disinvited from a Harvard-sponsored exhibition of Iranian propaganda posters because he had compared them to those of the Soviet Union. Some of the Iranians involved in the conference were apparently worried that comparing their country to an atheist state might provoke Ahmadinejad’s thought police...
...better sense of the city, hit the streets. Hanoi's pulse beats hardest in the maze-like Old Quarter, a collection of 50 streets and alleys, each named for its primary goods, such as silk on Hang Gai and silver on Hang Bac. Art houses sell communist-era propaganda reproduced on posters, canvas and mugs, and galleries offer stroke-perfect replicas of famous paintings for as little...
...Afghan refugees, Ali taught himself to draw using charcoal scavenged from bakeries. His artistic inspiration was his family's only book: an illustrated copy of the Shahnameh, a 10th century Persian epic revered in Afghanistan. The Taliban co-opted the poem's hero, Rustam, as a propaganda figure, telling Afghans that they, like him, were winged heroes endowed with arrows to defeat evil. Ali's phantasmagoric show, "Rustam," features a devil-figure with horns, wings and the unmistakably Pashtun features of many Taliban. Occasionally, an Arabic numeral floats mid-frame, a nod to Ali's earlier works, which riffed...