Week 7 focused on censorship & propaganda. On Tuesday we focused on censorship and discussed the chapter “Focus on the United States” by Frank Caso. This chapter gave an overview of the history of censorship throughout American history…
My group created our silent film based off of Mary Washington yearbooks from 1916-1998. We were inspired by the idea of recreating different scenes in the book. There were particular photos we chose to include such as typewriters, video games, and old…
Silent Film: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17xZpAenKHyXZf5PXGUTf6gFT2BG4V_hA/view?usp=sharingh For our group’s project, we decided to make a silent film in which Charlie Chaplin travels in time to the University of Mary Washington and has to find his way back. This project was a lot of fun to complete and I was able to learn a lot about how silent films
About Our Project Over the past few weeks, my table group mates and I have been working hard on creating a video for our Silent Film project. After debating between a few ideas, we decided to recreate yearbook photos and scenes from copies of The Battlefield, the University of Mary Washington (formally Mary Washington College)… Read More HIST 427: “UMW Blast From The Past” Silent Film
For our most recent assignment, we were to make a 3-5 minute silent film. Our group chose to reenact scenes from the UMW Yearbooks, ‘The Battlefield’ and take some artistic license into what might have gone on before and after each of the photos were taken starting in 1916, going
For me the question is why? Why do people, governments, media
conglomerates feel the need to censor contrary or competing opinions?
Frank Caso in his 2008 Censorship, as part of a Global Issues series of books,[1]
describes the history of cen…
The topics of censorship and propaganda are important to the history of the Information Age in the United States because they focus on the deliberate control of the spread of information, as compared to limitations due to economic strain, lack of access to transportation or resources, etc. While the government guarantees our rights to free
Week 6 Discussion Our readings for this week on the subjects of mass media and the rise of radio, film, television, and advertising, were by far my favorite of the semester so far. We began with the introduction to the book Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935 …
This week, we discussed the rise of mass media and early advertising in the United States. This week marks the second and last week that I have acted as a discussion leader. Mass Media The emergence of mass media in the United States was not a clearcut revolution in technological invention. As the radio and television… Read More HIST 427: Mass Media and Early Advertising
The first reading from this week I would like to discuss is Brought to You by: Postward Television Advertising and the American Dream by Samuel Lawrence. This introduction discusses how television advertising is significant representation of American culture. Lawrence signifies how postwar television advertising served as a “common language” between all Americans no matter their …