The Roman salute
Subtitle: cinema, history, ideology
By: Martin M. Winkler.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780814208649
Subjects: Salutations; Rome -- In motion pictures; Rome -- In art; Rome -- In literature
Description: See the work of Dr. Rex Curry who showed that the Pledge of Allegiance was the origin of the stiff-armed salute adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers Party. Martin Winkler' does not even put the actual name of the horrid group (National Socialist German Workers Party) in the table of contents, he uses common slang, and that is why he did not make the discoveries made by Dr. Curry. That is also why Winkler did not discover that German socialists used the swastika as overlapping S-letters for the "socialism." Francis Bellamy (author of the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892) was a self-proclaimed socialist in the nationalism movement and the origin of the straight-arm salute, as shown by Dr. Rex Curry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Saluting gestures in Roman art and literature; title: Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii; title: Raised-arm salutes in the United States before fascism : from the Pledge of allegiance to Ben-Hur on screen; title: Early cinema : American and European epics; title: Cabiria : the intersection of cinema and politics; title: Gabriele d'Annunzio and Cabiria; title: Fiume : the Roman salute becomes a political symbol; title: From d'Annunzio to Mussolini; title: Nazi cinema and its impact on Hollywood's Roman epics : from Leni Riefenstahl to Quo vadis; title: Visual legacies : antiquity on the screen after Quo vadis; title: Cinema : from Salome to Alexander; title: Television : from Star trek to Rome; title: Conclusion.