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Theater & Propaganda

Theater & Propaganda

Szanto, George H.

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral ArtGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0292737343
ISBN13: 9780292737341
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Dec 1 1977
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This original and insightful study explores the points at which theater and propaganda meet. Defining propaganda as a form of activated ideology, George H. Szanto discusses the distortion of information that occurs in dramatic literature in its stage, film, and television forms.

Szanto analyzes the nature of integration propaganda, which is designed to render the audience passive and to encourage the acceptance of the status quo, as opposed to agitation propaganda, which aims to inspire the audience to action. In Szanto's view, most popular western theater is saturated, though usually not intentionally, with integration propaganda. The overall purpose of Theater and Propaganda is twofold: to analyze the nature of integration propaganda so that it becomes visible to western readers as a tool of the dominant class in society, and to examine the manner by which unself-conscious propagandistic methods have saturated dramatic presentation.

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