Moving pictures and music are an ideal and/or lethal combination if you want to win over the minds and hearts of people. In Nazi propaganda these tools were orchestrated almost to perfection. But how exactly did film music support the Nazi ideology and what was the contribution of “Wien-Film”, the Vienna film company which was […] Continue reading “Wien-Film as an ideological music lab”
Film, books, newspapers and lectures – Colin Ross (1885-1945) successfully utilised almost all media channels during the interwar period. He did so initially as a popular travel writer and later, increasingly, as a propagandist. A project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF has examined his work in the context of his time and the […] Continue reading “Mapping Mr. Ross”
Between 1914 and 1918, around 1,500 films were produced in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy – a far greater number than previously assumed. Many of them were produced to entertain and not for war propaganda purposes. A comprehensive filmography now provides an unparalleled empirical basis and unravels some of the myths. Continue reading “Silent witnesses of a world war”