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World Service,5 mins

How Hollywood inspires the Islamic State

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Islamic State has turned to Hollywood techniques to put together their propaganda movies and lure in recruits. That's according to Margaret Bruder, a film studies professor and the author of several works on the aesthetics of violence. She says the group employing editing techniques in their new documentary called 'the Flames of War' used previously in Hollywood and Nazi propaganda movies.

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