Professor David Peimer
Joseph Goebbels and Propaganda
Summary
Investigating Leni Riefenstahl’s influence as a propaganda filmmaker for Hitler and the techniques she employed to create powerful and captivating images. Also considered is the relevance of her work in today’s digital age.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.
If some of these ideas could be used in a positive way, it could absolutely counter it. In trying to understand these pernicious and ferocious and horrific of using propaganda, we learn that these ideas can be used the other way around to give more positive messages.