A partial list of films funded/assisted by the DOD: https://www.academia.edu/4460251/Complete_List_of_Commercial_Films_Produced_with_Assistance_from_the_Pentagon sources: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/29/hollywood-and-thepentagonarelationshipofmutualexploitation.html https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0896920517739093 https://www.insideover.com/politics/captain-marvel-the-latest-propaganda-collaboration-between-the-military-and-the-mcu.html https://progressive.org/latest/call-of-duty-bad-history-propaganda-mayall-012121/ https://www.defense.gov/News/Inside-DOD/blog/article/2062735/how-why-the-dod-works-with-hollywood/ https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/57878/1/the-era-of-military-funded-e-girl-warfare-army-influencers-tiktok https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake884/us-army-pay-streamers-millions-call-of-duty https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BackedByThePentagon

“The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture, so they do not realize they’re being propagandized.”

– Elmer Davis (1890-1958)

Head of the Office of War Information (OWI) in 1941

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s also in the evolution of the word propaganda, in the 1920s, those in communications were realizing that the word was developing negative connotations, so they came up with a new term …

    Public Relations.

    Modern day public relations is propaganda, they both do the same thing, one word is bad, the other phrase is just business.