‘Pride and Joy’: Propaganda Wars, ‘Projections of America’ and the Dismantling of the Office of War Information at the Close of World War II
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The OWI was the key agency for the distribution and dissemination of US film and propaganda during World War II as mentioned in this paper. But it was the Overseas Branch of the OWI that dominated activity and the Motion Picture Association of AmericaAbstract:
The OWI was the key agency for the distribution and dissemination of US film and propaganda during World War II. But it was the Overseas Branch of the OWI that dominated activity and the Motion Pic...read more
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The Politics of Propaganda: The Office of War Information, 1942–1945. By Allan M. Winkler. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. × + 230 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, bibliography, and index. $11.95.)
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Summing Up: Problems and Prospects for a Global Church in the Twenty-first Century
TL;DR: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is the largest and most international of the Mormon religions as mentioned in this paper. But it did not have the ability to build a local base of members in the various countries where the leadership sent missionaries.
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Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies
TL;DR: Hollywood Goes to War as mentioned in this paper reveals the powerful role played by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Office of War Information (OWI) in shaping the films that were released during the war years, revealing that the film industry's own self-censorship system, the Hays Office and the Production Code Administration, paved the way for government censors to cut and shape movies to portray an idealized image of a harmonious American society united in the fight against a common enemy.
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