Echoes of Ideology: Toward an Audio Analysis Pipeline to Unveil Character Traits in Historical Nazi Propaganda Films

TL;DR

This paper presents a computational audio analysis pipeline to uncover ideological patterns and character traits in Nazi propaganda films, combining speaker diarization, transcription, and psycholinguistic analysis to provide scalable insights.

Contribution

It introduces a novel multi-step audio analysis pipeline specifically designed for analyzing ideological content in historical propaganda films.

Findings

Revealed ideological patterns in Nazi propaganda characters

Identified character traits through psycholinguistic analysis

Demonstrated scalability of the audio analysis approach

Abstract

This study investigates the use of computational audio analysis to examine ideological narratives in Nazi propaganda films. Employing a three-step pipeline, speaker diarization, audio transcription and psycholinguistic analysis, it reveals ideological patterns in characters. Despite current issues with speaker diarization, the methodology provides insights into character traits and propaganda narratives, suggesting scalable applications.