Art in Nazi Germany, at Smarthistory. After reading the article in the book and watching the online video, and based on your understanding of the threat that ideas generated by the arts can have to repressive governments, what are your thoughts on something like this happening in the United States? Do you think in our current information-saturated culture that the arts still have the ability to sway popular opinion?

Answer and Explanation:

Nazi art was used, mainly to stimulate the concept of superiority, which stimulated the action of the highly abusive Nazi government. In this regard, we can consider that an event like this could happen in the USA, since American society has very ingrained concepts of superiority and imperialism. However, many current artists have been involved in social and humanistic causes and these artists could undermine the proliferation of arts that advocate and encourage authoritarian and abusive governments in the USA.

Art is still a powerful tool for influencing popular opinion, especially in a society with so much information, like ours. This is because, with the rapid re-proliferation of information, art is able to be less elite and can reach more people, eliminating the formation of an opinion on a given subject.

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i think you best answer to this is d. some film directors were very picky about roles and lighting and and which side of the face the camera should catch. they were also picky about sound and background noise and chatter and music and all sorts of what we would consider trivial things. a stage director has to have all this ironed out before the curtain goes up. if he doesn't he better do it soon. if he doesn't notice, critics soon will, and they are not a very nice bunch.

e: both have the power to ask for rewrites. theater directors are always yammering about act 2.

c is true. both can ask for any number of things during rehearsals. the reason i wouldn't pick c is because a film director can make changes anytime during shooting, including when he thinks they ought to be done shooting.

b i didn't know what blocking was and i can't find a good description. if you have one and think b is true, go for it.

a a film director quite frequency chooses the leading lady or man. he may not have the final word, but he chooses. sometimes a theater director has no choice. a is generally not true.