Documentary Film by Patricia Aufderheide

Author:Patricia Aufderheide [Aufderheide, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780195182705
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-10-26T16:00:00+00:00

Filmmakers in the World War II era often believed they had not only a right but an obligation to produce propaganda. John Grierson thought that intellectuals had an obligation to work for a strong and unified but still open society. As he explained at the time, “Simply put, propaganda is education. The ‘manipulation’ in our films combines aesthetics with ideas of democratic reform. We are medicine men hired to mastermind. We are giving every individual a living conception of the community which he has the privilege to serve.” Compromise was both a harsh reality and a privilege. “The first rule of filmmaking is don’t pistol-whip the hand that holds the wallet,” he once said about the absence of class conflicts in his government projects.

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