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Propaganda is about getting people to form an opinion that you choose. Successful propaganda does so by association or implication: [[ShowDontTell show something that is the focus of smiling people and it will appear to be a source of happiness]]. Unsuccessful propaganda attempts to do so by telling you things: [[InformedAttribute you're going to be happy with this thing in contrast with all other things]]. Seem familiar? It's another form of marketing.
What distinguishes propaganda from advertising is "Unity of Message". Propaganda communicates a single, all-encompassing paradigm. Advertising communicates several, contradictory perspectives. Propaganda can be hamstrung through poor technique (e.g. North Korean propaganda), and advertising can succeed through coincidental Unity (e.g. buying things makes you happy), but by design propaganda has a much greater potential for influencing beliefs. Also, virtually every piece of art, literature, music, or film that has a statement to make beyond DoingItForTheArt can be considered propaganda, including works intended to ''condemn'' propaganda.
What distinguishes propaganda from advertising is "Unity of Message". Propaganda communicates a single, all-encompassing paradigm. Advertising communicates several, contradictory perspectives. Propaganda can be hamstrung through poor technique (e.g. North Korean propaganda), and advertising can succeed through coincidental Unity (e.g. buying things makes you happy), but by design propaganda has a much greater potential for influencing beliefs. Also, virtually every piece of art, literature, music, or film that has a statement to make beyond DoingItForTheArt can be considered propaganda, including works intended to ''condemn'' propaganda.
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Propaganda is about getting people the art of influencing opinion.
Non-eidetic human memory is relatively poor, as any High School student can attest. To get around this shortcoming, we have evolved toform believe things which we feel to be true based upon the facts we once knew and have now forgotten. When new information confirms a belief we accept it, strengthening our belief. When new information ''contradicts'' an opinion opinion, we must choose between reconsidering our belief or rejecting that you choose. Successful information. For most of our history, this arrangement has worked perfectly well.
However, this system has a flaw. At the root of our beliefs are not facts - because we do not remember them - but emotion. By appealing directly to our emotions, and bypassing rational assessments of what is or is not true, others can influence our beliefs.
Good propagandadoes so by association exploits this flaw with a direct appeal to our feelings through Association or implication: Implication: [[ShowDontTell show showing something that is the focus of smiling happy people and makes it will appear to be a source of happiness]]. Unsuccessful happiness, and makes it appealing to us if we want to be happy.]] Poor propaganda attempts often fails because its blatant, direct message forces people to do so by telling you things: consciously choose between accepting or rejecting its message: [[InformedAttribute you're going to be happy with this "this thing in contrast with all other things]]. Seem familiar? It's another form of marketing.
will make you happy!"]] prompts nothing so much as an eye-roll and a sarcastic 'yeah, right'.
What distinguishes propaganda from advertising is "Unity of Message". Propaganda communicates a single, all-encompassing paradigm. Advertising communicates several, contradictory perspectives. Propaganda can be hamstrung through poor technique (e.g. North Korean propaganda), and advertising can succeed through coincidental Unity (e.g.buying you must buy things makes you to be happy), but by design propaganda has a much greater potential for influencing beliefs.opinion. Also, virtually every piece of art, literature, music, or film that has a statement to make beyond DoingItForTheArt can be considered propaganda, including works intended to ''condemn'' propaganda.
Non-eidetic human memory is relatively poor, as any High School student can attest. To get around this shortcoming, we have evolved to
However, this system has a flaw. At the root of our beliefs are not facts - because we do not remember them - but emotion. By appealing directly to our emotions, and bypassing rational assessments of what is or is not true, others can influence our beliefs.
Good propaganda
What distinguishes propaganda from advertising is "Unity of Message". Propaganda communicates a single, all-encompassing paradigm. Advertising communicates several, contradictory perspectives. Propaganda can be hamstrung through poor technique (e.g. North Korean propaganda), and advertising can succeed through coincidental Unity (e.g.
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Propaganda is about using media to strengthen beliefs. Successful propaganda does so by association or implication: [[ShowDontTell show a man surrounded by people smiling at him and it'll look like he makes people happy]]. [[AuthorTract Unsuccessful propaganda attempts to do so by telling you things]]. Seem familiar?
What distinguishes propaganda from advertising is 'Unity of Message'. Propaganda communicates a single, all-encompassing wordlview. Advertising communicates several, contradictory ones. Propaganda can be hamstrung through poor technique (e.g. North Korean propaganda), and advertising can succeed through coincidental Unity (e.g. 'buying things makes you happy'), but at least in theory propaganda has a much greater potential for influencing opinion.
The techniques of propaganda and advertising are universal and can be seen in both, for example, AstroTurf versus ViralMarketing. Virtually every piece of art, literature, music, or film that has a point to make could be considered propaganda, including works intended to ''condemn'' propaganda.
What distinguishes propaganda from advertising is 'Unity of Message'. Propaganda communicates a single, all-encompassing wordlview. Advertising communicates several, contradictory ones. Propaganda can be hamstrung through poor technique (e.g. North Korean propaganda), and advertising can succeed through coincidental Unity (e.g. 'buying things makes you happy'), but at least in theory propaganda has a much greater potential for influencing opinion.
The techniques of propaganda and advertising are universal and can be seen in both, for example, AstroTurf versus ViralMarketing. Virtually every piece of art, literature, music, or film that has a point to make could be considered propaganda, including works intended to ''condemn'' propaganda.
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Propaganda is about using media getting people to strengthen beliefs. form an opinion that you choose. Successful propaganda does so by association or implication: [[ShowDontTell show a man surrounded by people something that is the focus of smiling at him and it'll look like he makes people happy]]. [[AuthorTract and it will appear to be a source of happiness]]. Unsuccessful propaganda attempts to do so by telling you things: [[InformedAttribute you're going to be happy with this thing in contrast with all other things]]. Seem familiar?
familiar? It's another form of marketing.
What distinguishes propaganda from advertising is'Unity "Unity of Message'. Message". Propaganda communicates a single, all-encompassing wordlview. paradigm. Advertising communicates several, contradictory ones.perspectives. Propaganda can be hamstrung through poor technique (e.g. North Korean propaganda), and advertising can succeed through coincidental Unity (e.g. 'buying buying things makes you happy'), happy), but at least in theory by design propaganda has a much greater potential for influencing opinion.
The techniques of propaganda and advertising are universal and can be seen in both, for example, AstroTurf versus ViralMarketing. Virtuallybeliefs. Also, virtually every piece of art, literature, music, or film that has a point statement to make could beyond DoingItForTheArt can be considered propaganda, including works intended to ''condemn'' propaganda.
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Propaganda is about using media to influence people into forming a desired opinion. Like all marketing, the primary method of convincing people is by association. Show a man surrounded by people smiling at him and it'll look like he makes people happy. Seems familiar? There's no clear line between propaganda and advertising, the same techniques can be seen in both, for example, AstroTurf versus ViralMarketing. Virtually every piece of art, literature, music, or film that has a point to make could be considered propaganda, including works intended to ''condemn'' propaganda.
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->''"The propagandist is a man who canalises an already existing stream. In a land where there is no water, he digs in vain."''
-->-- Aldous Huxley
Propaganda is about using media toinfluence people into forming a desired opinion. Like all marketing, the primary method of convincing people is strengthen beliefs. Successful propaganda does so by association. Show association or implication: [[ShowDontTell show a man surrounded by people smiling at him and it'll look like he makes people happy. Seems familiar? There's no clear line between happy]]. [[AuthorTract Unsuccessful propaganda attempts to do so by telling you things]]. Seem familiar?
What distinguishes propaganda from advertising is 'Unity of Message'. Propaganda communicates a single, all-encompassing wordlview. Advertising communicates several, contradictory ones. Propaganda can be hamstrung through poor technique (e.g. North Korean propaganda), and advertising can succeed through coincidental Unity (e.g. 'buying things makes you happy'), but at least in theory propaganda has a much greater potential for influencing opinion.
The techniques of propaganda andadvertising, the same techniques advertising are universal and can be seen in both, for example, AstroTurf versus ViralMarketing. Virtually every piece of art, literature, music, or film that has a point to make could be considered propaganda, including works intended to ''condemn'' propaganda.
-->-- Aldous Huxley
Propaganda is about using media to
What distinguishes propaganda from advertising is 'Unity of Message'. Propaganda communicates a single, all-encompassing wordlview. Advertising communicates several, contradictory ones. Propaganda can be hamstrung through poor technique (e.g. North Korean propaganda), and advertising can succeed through coincidental Unity (e.g. 'buying things makes you happy'), but at least in theory propaganda has a much greater potential for influencing opinion.
The techniques of propaganda and
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Overlaps with those who make propaganda, the PropagandaMachine. Supertrope to AttackOfThePoliticalAd, ScareCampaign, & WartimeCartoon.
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* ''ComicBook/TheSagaOfWhiteWill'', a white supremacist underground comic scripted by William Luther Pierce, was intended to recruit members for Pierce's movement, the National Alliance.
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* ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'', created by JackChick, are free comics that were intended to be spread by volunteers to disseminate the author's rather radical view on Christianity and what he views as its enemies.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' also had his share of propaganda. An infamous example is the ''ActionComics #58'' cover where Superman urges the reader to buy War Bonds while using a racist slur against the Japanese. In a different comic, Superman kidnapped both Hitler and Stalin, and brought them to the League of Nations court. He also fought the KKK in one of his radio adventures. And of course, one of the dude's catchphrases is "Truth, Justice and the ''American'' Way".
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* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' also had his share of propaganda. An infamous example is the ''ActionComics #58'' ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #58 cover where Superman urges the reader to buy War Bonds while using a racist slur against the Japanese. In a different comic, Superman kidnapped both Hitler and Stalin, and brought them to the League of Nations court. He also fought the KKK in one of his radio adventures. And of course, one of the dude's catchphrases is "Truth, Justice and the ''American'' Way".
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* ComicBook/TransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers: The Wreckers Declassified Data logs created by Ironfist were both a heroic and unintentional example. Ironfist idealized the Wreckers as the Autobots Strike Force that did the dirty jobs, and created the logs to pay tribute to them in his own fanboy way. The logs were faithful if dramatized and idealized, there were some blatant lies that covered up their more questionable actions but those were because high command covered up the incidents and not the author's fault. The logs became so popular that the Wreckers gained quite a bit of fame and respect and made them symbols of the elite rather than the dysfunctional gun thugs they were (one leader was a traitor, another went insane, the previous one executed prisoners, and one member may have started the entire war). Roadbuster came to regret the image they had, and how much was kept from the public eye.
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* ComicBook/TransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers: ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'': The Wreckers Declassified Data logs created by Ironfist were both a heroic and unintentional example. Ironfist idealized the Wreckers as the Autobots Strike Force that did the dirty jobs, and created the logs to pay tribute to them in his own fanboy way. The logs were faithful if dramatized and idealized, there were some blatant lies that covered up their more questionable actions but those were because high command covered up the incidents and not the author's fault. The logs became so popular that the Wreckers gained quite a bit of fame and respect and made them symbols of the elite rather than the dysfunctional gun thugs they were (one leader was a traitor, another went insane, the previous one executed prisoners, and one member may have started the entire war). Roadbuster came to regret the image they had, and how much was kept from the public eye.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Planet 51}}'' portrays the Human race as a monstrous group of aliens who want to enslave everything else. It's used as a scare tactic to the public much the same as actual sci-fi movies did back in the 1950's. Special mention that the ScareTactics were being used before anyone even knew that life existed beyond their world.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Planet 51}}'' portrays the Human race as a monstrous group of aliens who want to enslave everything else. It's used as a scare tactic to the public much the same as actual sci-fi movies did back in the 1950's. Special mention that the ScareTactics scare tactics were being used before anyone even knew that life existed beyond their world.
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* The ''Podcast/ThrillingAdventureHour'' segments featuring "Jefferson Reid, Ace American" and "Amelia Earhart, Fearless Flier" are portrayed as World War II Propoganda Pieces, framed as radio programs in which Jefferson and Amelia fight the Nazis for the good ol' U.S. of A.
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* ''Film/TheBirthOfANation'', where the KKK apparently saved the USA. ThePresident WoodrowWilson even screened it in the White House (first feature length film to have been) and said "it is all so terribly true". This, of course, made an awful lot of White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestants believe it, and that non-[=WASPs=] were maliciously destroying their precious democracy, was true.
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Overlaps with those who make propaganda, the PropagandaMachine. Supertrope to AttackOfThePoliticalAd, ScareCampaign, & WartimeCartoon. Compare with PoesLaw, StrawManNewsMedia, and WarIsGlorious. Contrast with MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting and WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical. Compare & contrast {{Anvilicious}}. See also CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker, EdutainmentShow, [[MaliciousSlander Malicious Libel]], NewSpeak, {{Newsreel}}s, PatrioticFervor, SubliminalAdvertising, and TheWarOnStraw.
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Overlaps with those who make propaganda, the PropagandaMachine. Supertrope to AttackOfThePoliticalAd, ScareCampaign, & WartimeCartoon. WartimeCartoon.
Compare with PoesLaw, StrawManNewsMedia, and WarIsGlorious. Contrast with MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting and WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical. Compare & contrast {{Anvilicious}}. See also CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker, EdutainmentShow, [[MaliciousSlander Malicious Libel]], NewSpeak, {{Newsreel}}s, PatrioticFervor, SubliminalAdvertising, and TheWarOnStraw.
Compare with PoesLaw, StrawManNewsMedia, and WarIsGlorious. Contrast with MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting and WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical. Compare & contrast {{Anvilicious}}. See also CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker, EdutainmentShow, [[MaliciousSlander Malicious Libel]], NewSpeak, {{Newsreel}}s, PatrioticFervor, SubliminalAdvertising, and TheWarOnStraw.
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* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has the ''The Cyrinishad'': an evil magical book that has the power to turn anyone who reads it into a devout worshiper of the evil god Cyric.
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* The Cyrinishad from ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has the ''The Cyrinishad'': an evil magical book that has the power is this trope taken to turn anyone who its LogicalExtreme: [[BrownNote whoever reads it into the book becomes a devout worshiper of of]] [[GodOfEvil Cy]][[MadGod ric]], and is convinced that he is the evil god Cyric.only true deity in existence in accordance to [[ItsAllAboutMe his Dogma]]. This works on pretty much ''everyone'', including ''gods''. The text itself fits this trope, being a thorough explanation of why Cyric is the One True Way and how everyone who does not worship him can just crawl in a hole and die.
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Overlaps with those who make propaganda, the PropagandaMachine. Supertrope to AttackOfThePoliticalAd, ScareCampaign, & WartimeCartoon. Compare with StrawManNewsMedia and WarIsGlorious. Contrast with MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting and WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical. Compare & contrast {{Anvilicious}}. See also CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker, EdutainmentShow, [[MaliciousSlander Malicious Libel]], NewSpeak, {{Newsreel}}s, PatrioticFervor, SubliminalAdvertising, and TheWarOnStraw.
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Overlaps with those who make propaganda, the PropagandaMachine. Supertrope to AttackOfThePoliticalAd, ScareCampaign, & WartimeCartoon. Compare with StrawManNewsMedia PoesLaw, StrawManNewsMedia, and WarIsGlorious. Contrast with MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting and WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical. Compare & contrast {{Anvilicious}}. See also CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker, EdutainmentShow, [[MaliciousSlander Malicious Libel]], NewSpeak, {{Newsreel}}s, PatrioticFervor, SubliminalAdvertising, and TheWarOnStraw.
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* ''Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder'' has the song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIsv1YOFNys "It's a Good Day to Die!"]] sold by the Federation as the [=#1=] hit single.
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Overlaps with those who make propaganda, the PropagandaMachine. Supertrope to AttackOfThePoliticalAd, ScareCampaign, & WartimeCartoon. Compare with {{Anvilicious}}, PatrioticFervor, StrawManNewsMedia, WarIsGlorious, TheWarOnStraw, & TokyoRose. Contrast MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting & WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical. See also CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker, [[MaliciousSlander Malicious Libel]], MindVirus, NewSpeak, {{Newsreel}}s, & SubliminalAdvertising.
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Overlaps with those who make propaganda, the PropagandaMachine. Supertrope to AttackOfThePoliticalAd, ScareCampaign, & WartimeCartoon. Compare with {{Anvilicious}}, PatrioticFervor, StrawManNewsMedia, WarIsGlorious, TheWarOnStraw, & TokyoRose. StrawManNewsMedia and WarIsGlorious. Contrast with MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting & and WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical. Compare & contrast {{Anvilicious}}. See also CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker, EdutainmentShow, [[MaliciousSlander Malicious Libel]], MindVirus, NewSpeak, {{Newsreel}}s, & SubliminalAdvertising.
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* ''TheSkywalkerParadigm'' is an analysis of StarWars viewed as a rebel propaganda film. -'''ZCE'''
* ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' had propaganda from its government all over the place. -'''ZCE'''
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* All the viral messages in the ''Film/StarshipTroopers''had movies are a pastiche of propaganda from its government all over the place. -'''ZCE'''recruitment tools.
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* The Fay'lia Empire in ''Roleplay/{{Entanglement}}'' went so far as to make a {{magical girl}} propaganda show.
* The Fay'lia Empire in ''Roleplay/{{Entanglement}}'' went so far as to make a {{magical girl}} propaganda show.
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* ''Film/WeveNeverBeenLicked'' follows a student enrolling in Texas A&M University during WWII, he eventually infiltrates a Japanese spy ring at the college and is part of the Battle of Midway.
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* ComicBook/TransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers: The Wreckers Declassified Data logs created by Ironfist were both a heroic and unintentional example. Ironfist idealized the Wreckers as the Autobots Strike Force that did the dirty jobs, and created the logs to pay tribute to them in his own fanboy way. The logs were faithful if dramatized and idealized, there were some blatant lies that covered up their more questionable actions but those were because high command covered up the incidents and not the author's fault. The logs became so popular that the Wreckers gained quite a bit of fame and respect and made them symbols of the elite rather than the dysfunctional gun thugs they were (one leader was a traitor, another went insane, the previous one executed prisoners, and one member may have started the entire war). Roadbuster came to regret the image they had, and how much was kept from the public eye.
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* ComicBook/TransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers: The Wreckers Declassified Data logs created by Ironfist were both a heroic and unintentional example. Ironfist idealized the Wreckers as the Autobots Strike Force that did the dirty jobs, and created the logs to pay tribute to them in his own fanboy way. The logs were faithful if dramatized and idealized, there were some blatant lies that covered up their more questionable actions but those were because high command covered up the incidents and not the author's fault. The logs became so popular that the Wreckers gained quite a bit of fame and respect and made them symbols of the elite rather than the dysfunctional gun thugs they were (one leader was a traitor, another went insane, the previous one executed prisoners, and one member may have started the entire war). Roadbuster came to regret the image they had, and how much was kept from the public eye.
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* All the viral messages in ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' movies are a pastiche of propaganda recruitment tools.
* ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'': The Family Values Program is a series of propaganda films to brainwash slaves, keep women submissive, and root out homosexuals. In the [[AlternateHistory movie's reality]], American culture was pretty much nothing ''but'' propaganda.
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* One edition of ''{{Concerned}}'' has a [[LaResistance Rebel]] newspaper report on Freeman's rampage through Nova Prospect. The Combine response? EVERYTHING IS FINE!
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Propaganda is about using media to influence people into forming a desired opinion. Like all marketing, the primary method of convincing people is by association. Show a man surrounded by people smiling at him and it'll look like he makes people happy. Seems familiar? There's no clear line between propaganda and advertising, the same techniques can be seen in both, for example, AstroTurf versus ViralMarketing. Virtually every piece of art, literature, music, or film that has a point to make could be considered propaganda, including works intended to ''condemn'' propaganda.
Historically, propaganda is a neutral word without any moral connotations. The concept of propaganda is [[OlderThanTheyThink Older Than You'd Think]], stemming back to antics in 5th Century Persia; for more information see its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda Wikipedia article.]] The word itself gained fashion around 1622, as the Catholic Church instituted a new department in its ministry to non-Catholics in new areas: ''Congregatio de Propaganda Fide'' in Latin, or "Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith." Since religions naturally choose to spread their news of their faith as part of its function, one shouldn't [[TropesAreNotGood see this as a good thing]] nor [[TropesAreNotBad use the otherwise neutral word as an accusation]] of that institution. The RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement applies here.
Overlaps with those who make propaganda, the PropagandaMachine. Supertrope to AttackOfThePoliticalAd & WartimeCartoon. Compare with {{Anvilicious}}, PatrioticFervor, StrawManNewsMedia, WarIsGlorious, TheWarOnStraw, & TokyoRose. Contrast MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting & WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical. See also CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker, [[MaliciousSlander Malicious Libel]], MindVirus, NewSpeak, {{Newsreel}}s, & SubliminalAdvertising.
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!!InUniverse Examples:
[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/{{FLAG}}'' has Saeko's flag picture used as propaganda. -'''ZCE'''
* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' portrays the Holy Bible itself as the greatest piece of propaganda that God ever created. The book itself really is holy, and any Devil who tries to read or recite it will experience pain for their troubles. However, the thing is that Devils really aren't evil. Most of them want to live normal lives like everyone else. Satan himself is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, and Devils in general don't hold any ill intentions or preconceived notions about Angels. Angels and Fallen Angels maliciously attack Devils because "the good book" tells them to.
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'' has a really bad Galaxy Police film, with things like ScoringPoints and even a grabber-claw enticement offer.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Planet 51}}'' portrays the Human race as a monstrous group of aliens who want to enslave everything else. It's used as a scare tactic to the public much the same as actual sci-fi movies did back in the 1950's. Special mention that the ScareTactics were being used before anyone even knew that life existed beyond their world.
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[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'''s plot revolves around a screening of a nazi propaganda film. -'''ZCE'''
* ''TheSkywalkerParadigm'' is an analysis of StarWars viewed as a rebel propaganda film. -'''ZCE'''
* ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' had propaganda from its government all over the place. -'''ZCE'''
* ''Film/WagTheDog'' had the song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enH2igVo55U "The American Dream"]] pushing for border protection.
* ''Film/ItHappenedHere'', an AlternateHistory film about a Britain that was conquered and occupied by the Germans in 1940, includes newsreels showing friendly comradeship between British and German soldiers.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* The 'Propos' made by the rebels in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' are basically these, used to turn the people against the Capitol.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The propaganda in ''Videogame/{{Bioshock|1}}'' was prevalent enough, but in [[Videogame/{{Bioshock2}} the sequel]] there's a ''theme park'' build by Andrew Ryan.
* ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'' features propaganda from the Great Korean Republic.
* In ''Videogame/StarCraft: Brood War'' the [[PropagandaMachine United Earth Network]] warns us about '''[[LargeHam ZERG!]]''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3MiUPORv-U but we can all rest easy]] as their homeworld has been occupied. Even though there's [[DiscOneFinalBoss another campaign]] as well as a [[Videogame/StarcraftII sequel]], doesn't [[BlatantLies necessarily mean]] the Zerg will be in either.
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[[folder:Web Originals]]
* The Fay'lia Empire in ''Roleplay/{{Entanglement}}'' went so far as to make a {{magical girl}} propaganda show.
* ''WebAnimation/LuckyDayForever'' has the Whites pulling the wool over the eyes of the Proles via artificial culture aimed at them.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. After the Northern Water Tribe attacks the Southern Water Tribe, Varrick funds a series of films called ''The Adventures of Nuktuk: Hero of the South'' (with Bolin playing the titular character). The goal of the films is to get the public to side with the Southern Tribe so that president Raiko would send his forces to help them win the civil war.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}}'' focuses around [[BigBad Megabyte]] utilizing propaganda posters and a vocal activist to turn the public against Enzo, the new Guardian and thus the biggest obstacle to Megabyte's eventual conquest of [[CityOfAdventure Mainframe]].
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* ''Anime/MomotarosDivineSeaWarriors'' (1945), which holds the distinction of being the very first feature-length anime ever made, tells the story of some adorable forest creatures who, under the tutelage of Literature/{{Momotaro}}, become paratroopers. In the end, they drop on a British-held island and defeat the cowardly British garrison.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' started as a propaganda comic, intended to rally support against the Nazis at a time when America hadn't yet joined the war in Europe. The famous issue #1 cover shows Cap, decked in his red-white-and-blue costume, punching AdolfHitler in the face. After WWII, Cap kept his propaganda status, now fighting Communists instead of Nazis. After he was reintroduced in the 60s, the level of propaganda was turned down somewhat.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' also had his share of propaganda. An infamous example is the ''ActionComics #58'' cover where Superman urges the reader to buy War Bonds while using a racist slur against the Japanese. In a different comic, Superman kidnapped both Hitler and Stalin, and brought them to the League of Nations court. He also fought the KKK in one of his radio adventures. And of course, one of the dude's catchphrases is "Truth, Justice and the ''American'' Way".
* ''Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets'' was published in a Catholic newspaper during the 1920s and commissioned by an abbot to warn against the godless Communists. Featuring many a StrawmanPolitical and memorable scenes like Soviet officials pulling their guns out at a political meeting to ask if anyone was against the names of the candidates or false factories where straw is burned and metal sheets hammered to create the illusion of productivity to visiting British officials.
** The later ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' story, ''Recap/TintinTheShootingStar'' had shades of this due to being published around WWII during the occupation by UsefulNotes/NaziGermany: the villains are obviously supposed to be GreedyJews who manipulate events behind the scenes.
* ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'', created by JackChick, are free comics that were intended to be spread by volunteers to disseminate the author's rather radical view on Christianity and what he views as its enemies.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''AsianAnimation/SquirrelAndHedgehog'' is an animated series from North Korea. The squirrels and hedgehogs are North Koreans (civilians and army, respectively) protecting their homeland against mice (South Koreans), weasels (Japanese), and wolves (Americans).
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[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
* ''Film/TheBattleshipPotemkin'' and ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'', both by Creator/SergeiEisenstein, are Soviet propaganda films. ''Potemkin'' dramatizes TheMutiny aboard the titular battleship, which was one of the more memorable incidents of the 1905 Revolution. And ''Nevsky'', despite being set in the 13th century, is a thinly disguised anti-Nazi film. The bad guys are German knights dressed in a heavy dose of PuttingOnTheReich.
* ''Film/TheBirthOfANation'', where the KKK apparently saved the USA. ThePresident WoodrowWilson even screened it in the White House (first feature length film to have been) and said "it is all so terribly true". This, of course, made an awful lot of White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestants believe it, and that non-[=WASPs=] were maliciously destroying their precious democracy, was true.
* ThoseWackyNazis didn't do this ''all'' the time. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Minister of Propaganda]] Joseph Goebbels recognized that constant indoctrination would turn off audiences, so most Nazi cinema consisted of comedies and romances and other escapism. But they did use the film industry for political messaging. TheOtherWiki has a list [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nazi_propaganda_films here]]. Notable Nazi propaganda films include:
** ''[[Film/{{Titanic1943}} Titanic]]'' (1943), [[CaptainObvious based on the events of the sinking]] of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic, used for anti-British propaganda (adding a fictional German officer [[IgnoredExpert whose warnings]] were ignored by the [[EvilBrit greedy and arrogant British captain]]). It was shelved when they realised it would remind people too much of Germany's situation at the time (although clips of it were reused as stock footage in ''Film/ANightToRemember'').
** ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill'' is about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress. Considered a groundbreaker in the use of propaganda, and highly influential. The medal scene that ends ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'' is a direct lift from this film.
* ''Series/VictoryAtSea'' is a 26 part series on WWII.
* ''Series/WhyWeFight'' is a series of American propaganda films produced during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, directed by Creator/FrankCapra, which sought to raise morale on the home front.
* ''Film/IpMan'', in addition to being an excellent action movie, is often considered to be borderline propaganda, demonizing foreigners and glorifying the Chinese.
* ''Film/WeveNeverBeenLicked'' follows a student enrolling in Texas A&M University during the 1940s. -'''ZCE'''
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheAeneid''. Emperor Octavian Caesar Augustus commissioned Virgil to write this Roman propaganda. [[http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/general-news/20070823/even-virgil-penned-political-propaganda More information here.]]
* ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'' is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1853, its purpose was to attack the institution of slavery and further the cause of abolitionism. It worked, in the North at least, while simultaneously making a lot of slave-holding Southerners really angry.
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Historically, propaganda is a neutral word without any moral connotations. The concept of propaganda is [[OlderThanTheyThink Older Than You'd Think]], stemming back to antics in 5th Century Persia; for more information see its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda Wikipedia article.]] The word itself gained fashion around 1622, as the Catholic Church instituted a new department in its ministry to non-Catholics in new areas: ''Congregatio de Propaganda Fide'' in Latin, or "Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith." Since religions naturally choose to spread their news of their faith as part of its function, one shouldn't [[TropesAreNotGood see this as a good thing]] nor [[TropesAreNotBad use the otherwise neutral word as an accusation]] of that institution. The RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement applies here.
Overlaps with those who make propaganda, the PropagandaMachine. Supertrope to AttackOfThePoliticalAd & WartimeCartoon. Compare with {{Anvilicious}}, PatrioticFervor, StrawManNewsMedia, WarIsGlorious, TheWarOnStraw, & TokyoRose. Contrast MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting & WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical. See also CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker, [[MaliciousSlander Malicious Libel]], MindVirus, NewSpeak, {{Newsreel}}s, & SubliminalAdvertising.
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!!InUniverse Examples:
[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/{{FLAG}}'' has Saeko's flag picture used as propaganda. -'''ZCE'''
* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' portrays the Holy Bible itself as the greatest piece of propaganda that God ever created. The book itself really is holy, and any Devil who tries to read or recite it will experience pain for their troubles. However, the thing is that Devils really aren't evil. Most of them want to live normal lives like everyone else. Satan himself is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, and Devils in general don't hold any ill intentions or preconceived notions about Angels. Angels and Fallen Angels maliciously attack Devils because "the good book" tells them to.
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'' has a really bad Galaxy Police film, with things like ScoringPoints and even a grabber-claw enticement offer.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Planet 51}}'' portrays the Human race as a monstrous group of aliens who want to enslave everything else. It's used as a scare tactic to the public much the same as actual sci-fi movies did back in the 1950's. Special mention that the ScareTactics were being used before anyone even knew that life existed beyond their world.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'''s plot revolves around a screening of a nazi propaganda film. -'''ZCE'''
* ''TheSkywalkerParadigm'' is an analysis of StarWars viewed as a rebel propaganda film. -'''ZCE'''
* ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' had propaganda from its government all over the place. -'''ZCE'''
* ''Film/WagTheDog'' had the song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enH2igVo55U "The American Dream"]] pushing for border protection.
* ''Film/ItHappenedHere'', an AlternateHistory film about a Britain that was conquered and occupied by the Germans in 1940, includes newsreels showing friendly comradeship between British and German soldiers.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* The 'Propos' made by the rebels in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' are basically these, used to turn the people against the Capitol.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* The propaganda in ''Videogame/{{Bioshock|1}}'' was prevalent enough, but in [[Videogame/{{Bioshock2}} the sequel]] there's a ''theme park'' build by Andrew Ryan.
* ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'' features propaganda from the Great Korean Republic.
* In ''Videogame/StarCraft: Brood War'' the [[PropagandaMachine United Earth Network]] warns us about '''[[LargeHam ZERG!]]''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3MiUPORv-U but we can all rest easy]] as their homeworld has been occupied. Even though there's [[DiscOneFinalBoss another campaign]] as well as a [[Videogame/StarcraftII sequel]], doesn't [[BlatantLies necessarily mean]] the Zerg will be in either.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Originals]]
* The Fay'lia Empire in ''Roleplay/{{Entanglement}}'' went so far as to make a {{magical girl}} propaganda show.
* ''WebAnimation/LuckyDayForever'' has the Whites pulling the wool over the eyes of the Proles via artificial culture aimed at them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. After the Northern Water Tribe attacks the Southern Water Tribe, Varrick funds a series of films called ''The Adventures of Nuktuk: Hero of the South'' (with Bolin playing the titular character). The goal of the films is to get the public to side with the Southern Tribe so that president Raiko would send his forces to help them win the civil war.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}}'' focuses around [[BigBad Megabyte]] utilizing propaganda posters and a vocal activist to turn the public against Enzo, the new Guardian and thus the biggest obstacle to Megabyte's eventual conquest of [[CityOfAdventure Mainframe]].
[[/folder]]
!!Examples:
%%
%% Please only list examples with their own pages and remember the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement.
%%
[[folder:Anime]]
* ''Anime/MomotarosDivineSeaWarriors'' (1945), which holds the distinction of being the very first feature-length anime ever made, tells the story of some adorable forest creatures who, under the tutelage of Literature/{{Momotaro}}, become paratroopers. In the end, they drop on a British-held island and defeat the cowardly British garrison.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' started as a propaganda comic, intended to rally support against the Nazis at a time when America hadn't yet joined the war in Europe. The famous issue #1 cover shows Cap, decked in his red-white-and-blue costume, punching AdolfHitler in the face. After WWII, Cap kept his propaganda status, now fighting Communists instead of Nazis. After he was reintroduced in the 60s, the level of propaganda was turned down somewhat.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' also had his share of propaganda. An infamous example is the ''ActionComics #58'' cover where Superman urges the reader to buy War Bonds while using a racist slur against the Japanese. In a different comic, Superman kidnapped both Hitler and Stalin, and brought them to the League of Nations court. He also fought the KKK in one of his radio adventures. And of course, one of the dude's catchphrases is "Truth, Justice and the ''American'' Way".
* ''Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets'' was published in a Catholic newspaper during the 1920s and commissioned by an abbot to warn against the godless Communists. Featuring many a StrawmanPolitical and memorable scenes like Soviet officials pulling their guns out at a political meeting to ask if anyone was against the names of the candidates or false factories where straw is burned and metal sheets hammered to create the illusion of productivity to visiting British officials.
** The later ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' story, ''Recap/TintinTheShootingStar'' had shades of this due to being published around WWII during the occupation by UsefulNotes/NaziGermany: the villains are obviously supposed to be GreedyJews who manipulate events behind the scenes.
* ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'', created by JackChick, are free comics that were intended to be spread by volunteers to disseminate the author's rather radical view on Christianity and what he views as its enemies.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''AsianAnimation/SquirrelAndHedgehog'' is an animated series from North Korea. The squirrels and hedgehogs are North Koreans (civilians and army, respectively) protecting their homeland against mice (South Koreans), weasels (Japanese), and wolves (Americans).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
* ''Film/TheBattleshipPotemkin'' and ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'', both by Creator/SergeiEisenstein, are Soviet propaganda films. ''Potemkin'' dramatizes TheMutiny aboard the titular battleship, which was one of the more memorable incidents of the 1905 Revolution. And ''Nevsky'', despite being set in the 13th century, is a thinly disguised anti-Nazi film. The bad guys are German knights dressed in a heavy dose of PuttingOnTheReich.
* ''Film/TheBirthOfANation'', where the KKK apparently saved the USA. ThePresident WoodrowWilson even screened it in the White House (first feature length film to have been) and said "it is all so terribly true". This, of course, made an awful lot of White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestants believe it, and that non-[=WASPs=] were maliciously destroying their precious democracy, was true.
* ThoseWackyNazis didn't do this ''all'' the time. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Minister of Propaganda]] Joseph Goebbels recognized that constant indoctrination would turn off audiences, so most Nazi cinema consisted of comedies and romances and other escapism. But they did use the film industry for political messaging. TheOtherWiki has a list [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nazi_propaganda_films here]]. Notable Nazi propaganda films include:
** ''[[Film/{{Titanic1943}} Titanic]]'' (1943), [[CaptainObvious based on the events of the sinking]] of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic, used for anti-British propaganda (adding a fictional German officer [[IgnoredExpert whose warnings]] were ignored by the [[EvilBrit greedy and arrogant British captain]]). It was shelved when they realised it would remind people too much of Germany's situation at the time (although clips of it were reused as stock footage in ''Film/ANightToRemember'').
** ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill'' is about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress. Considered a groundbreaker in the use of propaganda, and highly influential. The medal scene that ends ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'' is a direct lift from this film.
* ''Series/VictoryAtSea'' is a 26 part series on WWII.
* ''Series/WhyWeFight'' is a series of American propaganda films produced during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, directed by Creator/FrankCapra, which sought to raise morale on the home front.
* ''Film/IpMan'', in addition to being an excellent action movie, is often considered to be borderline propaganda, demonizing foreigners and glorifying the Chinese.
* ''Film/WeveNeverBeenLicked'' follows a student enrolling in Texas A&M University during the 1940s. -'''ZCE'''
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheAeneid''. Emperor Octavian Caesar Augustus commissioned Virgil to write this Roman propaganda. [[http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/general-news/20070823/even-virgil-penned-political-propaganda More information here.]]
* ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'' is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1853, its purpose was to attack the institution of slavery and further the cause of abolitionism. It worked, in the North at least, while simultaneously making a lot of slave-holding Southerners really angry.
[[/folder]]
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