Author: United States. Department of the Army
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Category : Audio-visual library service
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 1180

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Author: United States. Department of the Army
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Category : Logistics
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: United States. Adjutant-General's Office
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Category : Military education
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: United States. Department of the Army
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Category : Military education
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: United States. Department of the Army
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Author: John W. Lemza
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700632530
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Capitalizing on thousands of feet of accumulated footage captured by combat camera crews during the early years of the Korean War, a small group of US Army officers conceptualized a film series that would widen viewers’ understanding of the service and its mission. Their efforts produced the documentary television series that in late 1951 would become The Big Picture. Although it would take years to fully utilize the emerging technologies and develop the concept into a popularly recognized television series, The Big Picture did evolve into a vehicle whose intention was to help the army tell its story, sell its relevance in the emerging Cold War, and inform and educate its audience about American ideals. Its messages captured the early post-1945 zeitgeist and reflected a national mood that was anticommunist, steeped in foundational principles of American exceptionalism, and trusting of elite leadership. John W. Lemza’s The Big Picture argues that the show, like others produced for television during that time by the armed forces, served as a vehicle for directed propaganda, scripted to send important Cold War messages to both those in uniform and the American public. In this first systematic study of its production and reception history as well as its themes and cultural impact, Lemza shows how the producers incorporated specific Cold War themes, such as anticommunism, into episodes and deployed television’s small screen as the intersection of propaganda and policy during the Cold War period. John Lemza’s study reveals that the longer The Big Picture maintained those themes the more they began to lose their resonance, especially when the cultural and social environment of the United States began changing in the mid-1960s. The series producers chose to continue on a course that was set during the early Cold War years, and the credibility of the show began to suffer. Throughout the course of its two-decade production run, however, The Big Picture cast a big shadow as the premier military program influencing viewing audiences through primetime television and syndication.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Readiness
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1576

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Author: United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. Audiovisual Communications Division
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Category : Audio-visual materials
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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