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How Do Propaganda And Bigotry Impact Society

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Since the beginning of cinema, horror films have been giving audiences frights and delights. First, the horror genre has inspired fear of scientific advances. Second, the horror genre has inspired us to fear nature. Thirdly, I will discuss how films of propaganda or bigotry impact societies by inspiring fear, which add to people 's already massive feelings of fear and hate to causes people to commit horrible actions. For example, History 's greatest atrocities to be committed such as the holocaust to the era of Jim Crow Laws in American. When the first film of Frankenstein came out it in 1910 people thought the use of electricity throughout film was used as allegory for fear of man trying to act like god as written in

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