![]() ![]() (I'll let you decide if it's a sign of a healthy democracy or not to have a book about such a subject published so quickly after the facts - and then again, no need to read in the past our own problems is there?)\nBack then embedding correspondents was not an option (rather, official tours of the front were the norm, or faked reconstitutions of battles). Creel was in charge of all the efforts of the Committee, and was he an active busybody for a while ! His responsibility was to organise the effort of the US government to communicate efficiently about its war effort, and to win hearts and minds, both at home and abroad among allies and enemies. George Creel, //How We Advertised America//, published in 1920, tells the efforts of the Committee on Public Information, created by President Wilson in 1917, and discontinued in 1919 by order of Congress. If you've been thinking that America's not the democracy it says it is, I have the reading just for you. It doesn't prove that ] is ], of course, but it does establish that there may not be any contradiction between the demands of ] and the demands of ]. The argument that "it's just a show" does not matter (it's //because// it's just a show that realism is at all possible, otherwise it's real and there's no show). Thus, if ] is the showman's know-how\n<<<\nto evoke a desired audience response\n<<<\nand if that audience response so desired is to "make it look like real life" (] - check out the latin origin of that word: it's not just "like" the real world, it's also "probable"), then ], the art of manipulating an audience, can be geared towards ]. ![]() With it, realism then becomes a matter of know-how (the old Hollywood trick of not throwing the audience off). But 'verisimilitude' ? This can almost entirely be defined by reference //not// to the pro-filmic world, but to the internal coherence of the tale. Whether or not there is such a thing, whether or not anyone can be a reliable judge of what is real or not - those are then other issues to explore. Can ] be realism ?\n!!!!!* Consider the entries of the Oxford American Writer Thesaurus, 1st ed., for ] (aesthetic sense):\n<<<\na degree of realism: authenticity, fidelity, verisimilitude, truthfulness, faithfulness.\n<<<\nNow 'authenticity', 'fidelity', 'truthfulness' and 'faithfulness' all refer to some sort of real pro-filmic world.
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