Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Official Film Propaganda in Britain during the First World War; Chapter 2 Film Propaganda in the Soviet Union, 1917-1928; Chapter 3 National Socialist Film Propaganda in Germany, 1933-1945; Chapter 4 Official Film Propaganda in Britain during the Second World War; Chapter 5 Italian Neorealist Films; Conclusion; Further Reading; General Index; Index of Film Titles
Summary
Explores five case studies in Britain, the USSR, Germany and Italy to determine whether or not propaganda films reached the audiences at which they were targeted, and where they did, whether the films made the impact on those audiences that the propagandists had expected