The Effectiveness of Australian Film Propaganda for the War Effort 1914-1918
Among studies along a similar line, the first chapter of Nicholas Reeve’s book The Power of Film Propaganda: Myth or Reality? traces the history of Government-sponsored film propaganda in Britain during World War One, and draws several conclusions about the effectiveness of cinematic propaganda. He notes that “there is a clear relationship between the chronology of changing audience attitudes towards the official films and the chronology of changing wartime public opinion.” Furthermore, he states that “film propaganda was the servant, not the master of the audience it sought to control”, concluding that “the power of film propaganda does seem to have been more mythical than real.”[1] Reeves bases his argument exclusively on a study of the official war films, virtually all actuality films, produced under the authority of the British government.
Australian cinema, the first eighty years
Chronological coverage of the making of a film industry which only achieved international recognition in the 1980s.
Communist History: An Annual Bibliography (2005)
The subject of this bibliography is the scholarly literature of communist history. For the USA coverage is extensive. For the rest of the Anglophone world coverage is selective, while coverage for the rest of the world is more selective still. Coverage of the former and presently communist countries is largely limited to works dealing with the Communist parties of those countries. Anti-communism is covered selectively, with somewhat more emphasis on its interaction with communism than its nature as a movement/ideology per se. Coverage of related topics, i.e. the labor movement, Marxism, other strains of radicalism, etc., is highly selective and limited to items directly relevant to communism. For coverage of current reportage (newspapers, news weeklies, journals of opinion, Internet/WWW discussion lists, etc.) see the Newsletter of the Historians of American Communism and the Historians of American Communism Discussion List (h-hoac@h-net.msu.edu). The Bibliography is organized into seven sections, listed below. Sections 1–5 are form and genre based (monographs, serials, etc.), while sections 6 and 7 are format based (sound and visual, electronic). Entries are arranged alphabetically within each section. Where the number of entries warrants it, a section is divided into USA and Other. There is no index. Please be aware that most citations for items in electronic format are listed under their appropriate form/genre, i.e. articles in electronic serials are listed under serials. Section 7 (Internet, WWW, etc.) only contains citations for items in forms and genres irreducibly unique to the electronic environment, i.e. discussion lists (and postings and threads therein) and for those web sites and other electronic resources not subsumed under categories 1–7. Items cited are from the calendar year in the title of the Bibliography, with two exceptions, Internet/WWW items, where publication/creation date information is often unavailable or indeterminate, and older items not cited