Aesthetics of Power: Form and Ideology in 'Triumph of the Will'

Leni Riefenstahl's 1935 record of Nazi Party rallies remains one of the most revered and reviled documentaries ever made: a work both innovative in its style and shameless in its manipulation. As Thomas Redwood contends, the film masterfully employs the spectacle it depicts and each element of its cinematic language in the service of propaganda – a testament to both the skill of its director and the depravity of its aims.

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