Sentences with phrase «war propaganda by»

Christianity was used as war propaganda by the Holy Roman Emperor Constantine.

Not exact matches

Other exercises included interrogating ersatz prisoners of war, devising propaganda plans, and recovering papers from an agent's room (and, aggravatingly, getting interrupted by a rifle - wielding «German» midway).

During one of his general audiences he called the war in the east of Ukraine «fratricide» — using the term promulgated by Russian propaganda.

Hutchinson had made the clergy wary of propaganda by reprinting chapters of the book Preachers Present Arms, by Ray Abrams, on the sorry record of the clergy in World War I. Morrison had attended the 1937 Oxford World Conference on Church and State; its theme, «Let the Church Be the Church,» was the topic of many a wartime Century editorial.

Influenced by advisors whose white nationalists views are well known, the president has waged a propaganda war against ethnic and religious minorities, stoking fear and hate by lying about crime rates, terrorist attacks, and voter fraud and by issuing executive orders that have already hurt many thousands of people around the world, including desperate refugee families.

In Hitler, the War, and the Pope (2000), Rychlak helped turn back the wave of anti-Pius propaganda unleashed by John Cornwell's Hitler's Pope (1999).

What is going on in Ukraine is foreign aggression; it is by no means a civil war, as Russian propaganda would like the world to believe.

This new study and many other previous studies clearly contradict the propaganda espoused by Big Pharma and the U.S. Government dietary advice, which has been waging a war against saturated fats since the 1970s and the McGovern Report that promoted the false hypothesis that saturated fats led to an increase in lipid cholesterol levels and an increased risk for heart disease.

Having also represented Catalonia, he was an easy target for both Republicans and Nationalists during the War and was exploited by both sides for propaganda purposes.

I was heavily swayed by the war propaganda; and my parents were struggling to keep me at home.

Buenos Aires took the propaganda war over the archipelago's future to the pages of national newspapers by taking out adverts marking the 180th anniversary of the British arrival in the Falkland Islands.

Perception is reality and the reality is the viewer is being bombarded by the propaganda of one side in the emerging war.

WASHINGTON — President Trump's personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter «has been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.»

Whataboutism is a term describing a propaganda technique used by the Soviet Union in its dealings with the Western world during the Cold War.

«To achieve their evil propaganda objective of tarnishing her name, these evil elements have distorted the contents of a memo, dated January 20, 2015, in which the former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, responded to a request by the former National Security Adviser, Col. Ibrahim Dasuki (retired), for funds to prosecute the terror war against Boko Haram.

In an admission that he is losing the propaganda war, Cameron, in his letter appointing Hughes, claimed there was a «material risk» poor schoolchildren would be put off by «misinformation» from applying to higher education institutions or staying on to study A-levels.

An adaptation of Mark Harris» book of the same name, the three - part series adds new vitality to the material by bring in contemporary filmmakers to discuss the five directors who most shaped the American propaganda effort in the Second World War.

Other rarities I've recently found include Chekhov's Motifs (aka Chekhovian Motifs), one of the craziest features by the Russian eccentric Kira Muratova (it's on a Russian label with optional English subtitles and available in the U.S.); a fascinating collection of animated World War II propaganda from Disney, some of it unavailable since that time; a splendid French letterboxed copy of Anthony Mann's Man of the West; Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger and two Kenji Mizoguchi films (released on the British labels BFI and Artificial Eye, respectively); and Louis Feuillade's stunning 1916 French serial Judex on an American label.

Yet when the filmmaker came across an article in The New Yorker about the citizen journalist outfit Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, he realized that the war he would cover would not be fought with bullets, as much as the men and women who file dispatches from ground zero risk their lives, but instead with information as he followed the network built by RBSS to share their testimony with the rest of the world to rival the propaganda machine created by ISIS to recruit new soldiers from inside the country.

Maybe my expectations were duly lowered but director Francis Lawrence, who took over the series from filmmaker Gary Ross and raised the bar, and screenwriters Peter Craig and Danny Strong turn out a surprisingly engaging film about rebellion, propaganda, media, and the emotional and psychological scars of war, all seen from the point of view of a young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) who becomes a symbol of resistance simply by surviving with courage, dignity, and compassion.

A British film crew attempts to boost morale during World War II by making a propaganda film after the Blitzkrieg.

Based on the Lissa Evans novel Their Finest Hour and a Half, Scherfig's film tells a behind - the - scenes story (with a witty script by Gaby Chiappe) about a group of filmmakers tasked with creating effective World War II propaganda films, meant to inspire resoluteness in the people of Britain and to sway American public opinion toward joining the wWar II propaganda films, meant to inspire resoluteness in the people of Britain and to sway American public opinion toward joining the warwar.

When America went to war and Hollywood was given the word to twist its message to war propaganda, Lang sunk his teeth into the assignment with a conviction matched only by fellow European exiles.

When America went to war in 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hollywood did too: Marquee film directors, struck by patriotism, became officers overnight and shipped out to the front lines with cameras, mounting their own propaganda campaigns.

At its simplest, Comrade Detective is a Romanian buddy - cop comedy presented as Cold War - era pro-communist propaganda that is being dubbed into English by A-list voice talent including Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon - Levitt,...

Coin and her right - hand man, Plutarch (Philip Seymour Hoffman), decide to use Katniss» defiance to their advantage by assigning her to a specialized military unit — which also includes Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and a mentally unstable Peeta — to shoot more propaganda videos on the war - town streets of the city.

And when such links can not be ignored (as, for example, in the cases of the horrendous treatment of women by the Taliban or the rulers of Saudi Arabia, the clear calls for holy war against the infidel by many Muslim clerics, or the widespread dissemination of Nazi - level anti-Semitic propaganda throughout the Arab world), students are still exhorted to tolerate the intolerable by «understanding» its cultural or historical context to the point of excusing it all away.

By lobbying against good charter legislation and fair funding (see Figure 1), financing anti-charter studies and propaganda, filing lawsuits, and engaging the public battle of ideas, teacher unions and other charter opponents openly wage what might be called an «air war» against charters.

With a critical mind, honed by comprehensive study of the liberal arts and sciences, the citizen is properly armored for the endless war he will have to fight against mind - numbing, enslaving propaganda.

The SOE was formed from three different but overlapping units: a propaganda unit known as Department EH run by a Canadian newspaper magnate; Section D, a division of the Secret Intelligence Service focused on sabotage and propaganda; and a department of the War Office, known as MI R.

Dahl would soon be caught up in a complex web of deception masterminded by William Stephenson, aka Intrepid, Churchill's legendary spy chief, who, with President Roosevelt's tacit permission, mounted a secret campaign of propaganda and political subversion to weaken American isolationist forces, bring the country into the war against Germany, and influence U.S. policy in favor of England.

Meanwhile, pit bulls were chosen as mascots by the Buster Brown shoe company and by the United States itself, which featured pit bulls on American propaganda posters for each of the first two world wars.

And it was given credibility by the academic credentials of the virulent cat - haters behind this propaganda war, one of whom actually said in his book Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer that felines should be removed from the landscape «by any means necessary.»

Dario Escobar presents a critical interpretation of Guatemalan's religious heritage and active legacy of war by mixing visual kitsch referents from the repertoires of clerical, military and commercial propaganda.

Marking the centenary of the start of World War I and drawn from the Harry Ransom Center's collections, this exhibition explores war from the point of view of its participants and observers, preserved for a 21st - century generation through letters, drafts, and diaries, memoirs and novels, photographs and works produced by battlefield artists, and propaganda posters and filmWar I and drawn from the Harry Ransom Center's collections, this exhibition explores war from the point of view of its participants and observers, preserved for a 21st - century generation through letters, drafts, and diaries, memoirs and novels, photographs and works produced by battlefield artists, and propaganda posters and filmwar from the point of view of its participants and observers, preserved for a 21st - century generation through letters, drafts, and diaries, memoirs and novels, photographs and works produced by battlefield artists, and propaganda posters and films..

Representation is the key strategy for two artists: the Japanese American artist and community activist Tomie Arai's Momotoro / Peach Soy revisits the narrative of a Japanese folk tale, used as propaganda by the Japanese military during World War 11, by juxtaposing images taken from various sources.

I freely admit that I gently borrowed the title from French professor Serge Guilbaut, whose book How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War, written back in 1983, is still by far one of the most fascinating books about abstract expressionism and its controversial use as propaganda in the Cold War years.

Even though Burri was never explicitly tied to any movement, to most viewers his abstract «unpainted paintings» should appear comfortable in his cultural moment, absorbing the monochromatic interests of Abstract Expressionists, while also setting the ground for Arte Povera and assemblage art.The co-curators work extensively to expand these associations through the exhibition's wall labels, which relate Burri to various artists, works, and moments far beyond the scope of midcentury abstraction, including Piero della Francesca's Madonna of Partition (1455 — 6)(for the subject of incised fabric), Joseph Beuys (as an artist formed by war), Italian Neorealist cinema (for its use of artifice and rupture to reappropriate the realism of Facist war propaganda), and even Rodin's Gates of Hell (1880 --- 1917)(for the «Combustione Plastica» series» hellish melting of form).

His work is informed by an explicit political awareness, often telling of new forms of propaganda in an era of mediated war.

We'd be hard pressed to find any rules that her eclectic and diverse work abides by, as her influences range from Eastern European propaganda and 20th - century literature to Cold War iconography and, in the case of this work, the illustrations of Hergé.

- Craig During World War II, emotionally stirring propaganda posters commissioned by the U.S. government helped...

In particular, following the footsteps of Nazi war propaganda and RTL's radio broadcasts in Rwanda, social media can be used to instigate or incite the commission of international crimes by the masses.

It was originally a propaganda poster in red with white text created by the Government of the United Kingdom during the Second World War to boost the morale of the public in the event of an invasion by the Nazis.