Dr Ian Scott: Propaganda Wars, Projections of America and the Dismantling of the Office of War Information at the close of World War II
5:00pm - 6:30pm /
Monday 25th April 2016
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
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The Liverpool Film Seminar continues next week with Dr Ian Scott (University of Manchester) as our guest speaker whose talk is entitled: “’Propaganda Wars, Projections of America and the Dismantling of the Office of War Information at the close of World War II”
The seminar will take place on Monday 25th April (5.30 pm) at The Library, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.
Refreshments will be provided.
Looking forward to seeing you there
Yannis (and Lydia)
Abstract: The OWI was the key agency for the distribution and dissemination of film and propaganda by the United States during World War Two. Working at home and aboard, it was the Overseas Branch of the OWI that came to dominate activity and the Motion Picture Unit of the OB that helped shape documentary production during the war. The OWI is thought to have had its activities wound down as the war came to a close in a manner in keeping with the reversion to peacetime government policy. Yet, as this paper argues, events within the OWI in the last year of the war throw up previously uncovered evidence that suggests the agency was being deliberately sidelined – even undermined - in preparation for a more rigorous and ideological post-war propaganda apparatus. This propaganda philosophy was set in train by a select number of individuals, and their investigations into, and criticism of, the OWI is revealed for the first time in this presentation.
Bio: Ian Scott is Assistant Associate Dean and Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of American Politics in Hollywood Film (2nd ed) Edinburgh: EUP, 2011, and In Capra’s Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006, amongst other works, and has written extensively on political movies and Hollywood’s relationship with Washington and American political culture more generally. He also works in documentary film and his first collaboration with docdays Production in Berlin, Projections of America, has appeared at various film festivals and was shown on ARTE in Europe in 2014 and Canadian television in 2015. It won the documentary prize at the Dallas Videofest in Oct 2015. He is currently completing a book of the film, A Better Tomorrow: Transatlantic World War II Propaganda. His new book, The Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism (co-authored with Henry Thompson) will be published in summer 2016 by Manchester University Press, and is the result of an extensive series of interviews with the director conducted over more than five years.
Dr Yannis Tzioumakis
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies
Department of Communication and Media
School of the Arts
University of Liverpool
19 Abercromby Square
Liverpool
L69 7ZQ
The seminar will take place on Monday 25th April (5.30 pm) at The Library, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.
Refreshments will be provided.
Looking forward to seeing you there
Yannis (and Lydia)
Abstract: The OWI was the key agency for the distribution and dissemination of film and propaganda by the United States during World War Two. Working at home and aboard, it was the Overseas Branch of the OWI that came to dominate activity and the Motion Picture Unit of the OB that helped shape documentary production during the war. The OWI is thought to have had its activities wound down as the war came to a close in a manner in keeping with the reversion to peacetime government policy. Yet, as this paper argues, events within the OWI in the last year of the war throw up previously uncovered evidence that suggests the agency was being deliberately sidelined – even undermined - in preparation for a more rigorous and ideological post-war propaganda apparatus. This propaganda philosophy was set in train by a select number of individuals, and their investigations into, and criticism of, the OWI is revealed for the first time in this presentation.
Bio: Ian Scott is Assistant Associate Dean and Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of American Politics in Hollywood Film (2nd ed) Edinburgh: EUP, 2011, and In Capra’s Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006, amongst other works, and has written extensively on political movies and Hollywood’s relationship with Washington and American political culture more generally. He also works in documentary film and his first collaboration with docdays Production in Berlin, Projections of America, has appeared at various film festivals and was shown on ARTE in Europe in 2014 and Canadian television in 2015. It won the documentary prize at the Dallas Videofest in Oct 2015. He is currently completing a book of the film, A Better Tomorrow: Transatlantic World War II Propaganda. His new book, The Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism (co-authored with Henry Thompson) will be published in summer 2016 by Manchester University Press, and is the result of an extensive series of interviews with the director conducted over more than five years.
Dr Yannis Tzioumakis
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies
Department of Communication and Media
School of the Arts
University of Liverpool
19 Abercromby Square
Liverpool
L69 7ZQ