Celluloid cold war and its impact on American public opinion
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2023
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UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA
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This study aims to provide a brief history of cinema during the Cold War and its
popularity in the world , and how film was made . The study also shows how American
cinema was during the Cold War and how it was used as a deadly weapon to hit the Soviet
pole and distort its image , and how Soviet cinema was and its quest to portray the enemy (the
American pole) in films from the early years from the beginning to the end of the Cold War .
On the other hand , this study discusses the Cold War filming of Russian and American
cinematic films in general , and provides a glimpse of propaganda in general and its various
means , in addition to discussing mass disinformation and its relationship to American
propaganda and films and espionage during the Cold War , while Russian films and
propaganda were also filmed during the Cold War .
The final chapter aims to provide the impact of cinema during the Cold War on American
public opinion .
The study chose the methodology of content analysis and film analysis to analyze many
American and Soviet films and how both sides were represented ( Spying and propaganda
films ) .