The Hollywood-Hitler-Spielberg Connection

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

davemarc:

> At 09:09 PM 6/10/96 +0200, hag wrote:
> >
> >And then there's Goebbel's fascination with the old Hollywood epics, 
> >and his subsequent exploitation (and further development) of Hollywood 
> >conventions in films such as Jud Suess. And then, of course, in the 
> >next logical evolutionary step, the enthusiastic adoption and further 
> >refinement of propaganda tricks by the post-war (and then post-sixties) 
> >ad industry and by such contemporary masters as Stephen Spielberg....
> >
> I suggest being more careful about distinguishing between propagandizing a
> la Goebbels and directing/producing a la Spielberg.
> 
> davemarc

I suggest being more careful about distinguishing between assuming a 
la davemarc and writing/suggesting a la hag. 

On the other hand, why? 

hg
PS. Goebbels and Spielberg may have different agendas (one selling 
Nazi propaganda, the other selling... his films? himself? family 
values? the new 'special [US-Ger] relationship'?), but their cinematic 
techniques and what I called "propaganda tricks" are most certainly 
the same (read: part of the same bag of tricks). Are you seriously 
implying some kind of fundamental difference between "propagandizing" 
and "directing/producing" as used above? 
And I suppose you're not familiar with critiques of "Schindler's List" a 
la Claude Landsberg, either....
hag at iafrica.com