Classic Hollywood cinema as propaganda
Abstract
The relatively recent tradition of American consumption of media has had the most immediate effects on influencing culture and allows propaganda of racial beliefs to be deeply rooted in society. Photography was the first use of pictorial proof as documentation of scientific analysis starting in the late 1800s. There was a sudden trust from viewers when they were presented with an image of presumed objective nature, emphasizing the ideology of "I'll believe it when I see it." The use of this medium on the study of human beings can be traced back to extensive works on eugenics and attempting to cite the differences between human races. It's an imperialistic, adventurist notion to travel to new lands with the goal of discovery and the promise of riches for a return with an exotic item.
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Artifacts ; issue 09 (2014)
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