A Political Weapon: Film Propaganda in Britain, France, Germany, and the US in the First World War

Year 2015, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 70 - 84, 31.12.2015

Çağrı İnceoğlu

Abstract

Although the most well-known and studied era on wartime film propaganda is World War II, the first and the crucial phase at the development of film propaganda emerged during the First World War. Understanding the change in this era's film propaganda practice splay an important role to grasp the qualities of sophisticated film propaganda of the postwar years. Furthermore, it may also help to laborate the relationship between propaganda and film art, the origin sand the development of documentary film and even the communication theories. In this article, which is based on various sources, the birth and the development of official film propaganda during the Great War have been demonstrated through the stories of the practices in Britain, Germany, France and the USA. It has been drawn attention to the importance of this early period of film propaganda.  

Keywords

Film, Propaganda, First World War

POLİTİK BİR SİLAH: BİRİNCİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI’NDA İNGİLTERE, FRANSA, ALMANYA ve ABD’DE PROPAGANDA FİLMCİLİĞİ

Abstract

Savaş sırasında propaganda filmciliğine dair en fazla bilinen ve üzerinde çalışılan dönem İkinci Dünya Savaşı olmasına karşın, propaganda filmlerinin gelişimindeki ilk ve en önemli aşama Birinci Dünya Savaşı'nda gerçekleşmiştir. Tarihsel olarak bu dönemdeki propaganda filmleri deneyiminin içerdiği dönüşümün bilinmesi, yalnızca takip eden yılların daha gelişkin propaganda filmciliğinin niteliklerinin anlaşılabilmesinde değil; sinema propaganda ilişkilerini, belge filmciliğinin ve hatta kitle iletişim kuramlarının ortaya çıkış ve gelişimindeki etkisini daha iyi değerlendirmede önemli bir rol oynayabilir. Bu çalışmada Birinci Dünya Savaşı'nda resmi propaganda filmciliğinin doğuşu ve gelişimi İngiltere, Almanya, Fransa ve ABD'deki ilk etkin girişimler ve uygulamalar üzerinden açıklanmış; propaganda filmciliğinin bu erken döneminin önemine dikkat çekilmiştir.  

Keywords

Film, Propaganda, Birinci Dünya Savaşı

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