Popular Response
The film was a popular success when it was released in 1916. The 1916 Democratic National Committee credited the film with helping to re-elect President Woodrow Wilson. After the entry of the United States into the war, the film was pulled from distribution.
Film director Yasujiro Ozu claimed that he first decided to become a film director when watching Civilization.
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“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
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