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Society & Culture:Personal Journals
In the 1950s the CIA weaponized culture to capture hearts and minds in Europe and Africa. We meet three writers (Richard Wright, Kenneth Tynan, and Dwight Macdonald) who got caught up in this battle both as collaborators and targets between the years of 1956 - 1960. We also meet a propagandist responsible for the CIA’s cinematic version of 1984 (Operation Big Brother) and “books that don’t smack of propaganda” aimed at European Intellectuals - including James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son.
Shownotes: Françoise Vergès is the author of A decolonial Feminism, James Campbell is the author of Paris Interzone and Talking at the Gates, Jelena Ćulibrk writes on IRD and Newsreels, Tony Shaw writes on British Cinema and the Cold War,
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Not All Propaganda is Art 9: Freedom or Death
Not All Propaganda is Art 8: Signature Acoustique
Not All Propaganda is Art 7: Manufacturing Dissent
Not All Propaganda is Art 6: The Kitsch Debate
Not All Propaganda is Art 5: The Play's the Thing
Not All Propaganda is Art 4: Propagande Noire
Not All Propaganda is Art 3: The Man Who Was Thursday's Children
Not All Propaganda is Art 2: Outsider Influence
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