David Hesse

Disney's creative contribution to US-American World War 2 propaganda and its effect on the citizens' attitude towards war David Hesse

Research Paper (Pre-University) from the year 2014 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1+, , language: English, comment: Gutachten: Bei der vorliegenden Facharbeit handelt es sich um eine äußerst sorgfältig angefertigte Arbeit, die weit über die Maße den inhaltlichen, sprachlichen und formalen Erwartungen entspricht. Das Thema wurde selbstständig gewählt und ist sehr sinnvoll auf die Analyse ausgewählter Kurzfilme eingegrenzt worden. (...) Die sprachliche Leistung besticht durch ein sehr differenziertes Ausdrucksvermögen und einen äußerst vielseitigen Wortschatz. Die Ausführungen sind hervorragend miteinander verbunden und durchweg idiomatisch. Im Bereich der Sprachrichtigkeit unterlaufen keine Fehler... , abstract: When I was to decide for a topic to be dealt with in my 'Facharbeit', the decision was clear: Including my interest in the history and pop culture of the United States of America, Disney's World War 2 cartoons offer a great potential to be researched intensively as one can find a lot of background knowledge, regarding the history of the Disney studios and the general historical context. Also, there is a broad mass of cartoons to be analyzed and looked at closely. Questioning the justification for family cartoons to be used as propaganda material, I further have a firm opinion. However, in order not to go beyond the scope, I must, unfortunately, leave out several relevant and interesting aspects to the topic and do not make any claims for completeness. In the following, I would like to elucidate my approach towards the issue: To begin with, I focus on general, historical facts about the US-American World War 2 propaganda and Disney's contribution to the war effort, giving basic background information, in order to understand and interpret two war-time cartoons which perfectly exemplify the convincing way most propaganda cartoons worked and appealed to the citizens. Being two of the most popular shorts during World War 2 (one of