Hollywood Propaganda: The Glorification of War by the Film Industry

Since the beginning of the history of mankind, war has always existed. Likewise, war movies have always existed since the beginning of the film industry. As with most other types of movies, war movies are made as a form of entertainment for the benefit of individuals or organizations. More and more people are willing to spend money and time on behavior, excitement, heroism and patriotism feelings rather than the horrible and horrible images of real and ordinary human destruction. The government has been using propaganda for a long time, and as the movie was screened, the government almost immediately saw new media as an opportunity to influence the public.

Like all other American industries, the film industry responded at the speed of the Second World War, increased productivity, and created a new wave of wartime images. During the war, Hollywood became the main cause of American patriotism by creating a universal perception of publicity, documentaries, educational photographs, and wartime needs. In 1946, the number of attendees at the theater and gross profit recorded a record high. The 1950s was an era of great changes in American culture and around the world. In the postwar United States, ordinary families became wealthy, new social trends, progress of music, prosperity of popular culture, especially the introduction of television was born. Estimated 10 million households owned television by 1950.

The attendance rate of the theaters reached the highest level in 1946 and proved to be the most profitable year in Hollywood. For the United States, the propaganda organization coordinating action with the movie industry is the War Information Bureau. Agencies will cooperate with filmmakers to record their wartime activities and film them while standardizing their content. Agencies are striving to review negative content in a positive way like soldier's crazy and casualties photos; pictures of American casualties are banned from publication before 1943

When discussing the role of mass media in the American advertising war, Hollywood's role as well as of course. During the war, Hollywood has produced many war related movies like the target, Myanmar! , The bridge of the Kwai River, the story of G.I. Joe, where are we serving? Several documentaries were also produced at this time. Its most famous is the "Why We Fight" series by Frank Coupla. A series of films entrusted by the Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, was monitored by the military and the United States was used as an orderly learning tool for the military than "the enemy is known". The main purpose of coupler's mind is to unite the American people to "win the war and win the peace" (Dower) 16)