Politics In Casablanca

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Casablanca: A political approach. Michael Curtiz's Casablanca is highly acclaimed and is regarded as one of the greatest films in the history of cinema. Although it does have the genre of a romantic drama, with the setting displayed as the ongoing war of World War 2, there is a great degree of probability that we can apply a political film analysis to the film. In this paper, we will be examining the political notions implied in the film and how Casablanca has overall themes of devotion, sacrifice, and the fight against injustice. Casablanca was released in 1942, during the peak of World War II, which provided at the time to the general audience watching the film a perspective of elusion and a sense of hope during a time in which it was an extremely stressful and …show more content…

Upon looking more into this, it was learned that Casablanca was a film that played the role of the U.S. government, using this to convince Americans that the United States did have a necessary role in the war. According to an academic journal by Jack Nachbar, he states, “An American society that had opposed any participation in a foreign war for a generation at the end of 1941 was suddenly forced to face the reality that the United States was fully engaged in defeating foreign enemies in both Europe and the Pacific. It therefore quickly became in the best interests of the government, of wartime industries, and of mass media, ever anxious to exploit public obsessions to try to justify intervention” (Nachbar, 3). Casablanca was one of many films centered around WW2 that was considered propaganda to justify the means of having the U.S. involved by involving the

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