| FT-51663-03 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Brett Bowles | Filmed News, Politics, and Public Opinion in France, 1940-1944 | 6/1/2003 - 7/31/2003 | $5,000.00 | Brett | | Bowles | | | | Iowa State University of Science and Technology | Ames | IA | 50011-2000 | USA | 2003 | European History | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
I propose to complete research for a book-length history of filmed propaganda in France during the Second World War. The project focuses on four weekly newsreel series (one German, two French, one Franco-German), using a comparative approach that identifies the distinct ideological content, production and distribution strategies, and audience reception of each series. In so doing, the project addresses two larger goals: 1) to reveal the varieties of compromise and conflict that lay below the surface of state collaboration between the Vichy French government and the Third Reich; 2) to clarify the role that cinema played in shaping French public opinion and collective mentalities on key ideological issues. |