2-part workshop
This 2-part workshop takes places on two consecutive days.
- Part 1: Double feature screening Starship Troopers (1997) & V for Vendetta (2005) Thursday, November 26, 13:15 - approx. 17:30 Sophus Bugges hus, Auditorium 1
- Part 2: Workshop Fri, Nov 27, 12:00-14:00 Sophus Bugges hus, Seminar room 1
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The workshop is free and open to all. Sign up via the link below to participate.
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About the workshop
We live in an age where propaganda, PR and advertising are ubiquitous, whether via political communications, the traditional media, or the internet and social media.
Propaganda is a fact of life not only in nations with authoritarian regimes, but also in liberal democracies. We are constantly warned of the rise of misinformation and disinformation, of fake news, and that we live in a post-truth age.
Yet propaganda has a much longer lineage. There is also a rich history of propaganda being depicted and explored in popular culture, such as literature, theatre, music, television shows and movies.
When many people think about propaganda, they draw upon such conceptualisations as a way to think and talk about the subject. George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm, for example, have furnished the popular imagination with concepts such as the ‘thought police’, Room 101, “Ignorance is Strength”, and, indeed, the very term ‘Orwellian’ itself.
In this workshop we will examine two examples related to the United States and the UK of how propaganda has been depicted in movies: Starship Troopers (1997) and V for Vendetta (2005).
We will explore how propaganda is conceptualised in each movie, and why this is the case – as well as what we can learn about popular understandings of propaganda, and the nature of propaganda itself.
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