Re:The Artful Propaganda of Soviet Children’s Literature
by tptacek on Sunday June 18, 2017 @03:21AM
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Rambo? Rambo is luridly anti-government.
Re:The Artful Propaganda of Soviet Children’s Literature
by coldtea on Sunday June 18, 2017 @06:39AM
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It doesn't have to be pro-government to be pro-US, pro-national interests and pro-national ideology, in other words to promote all the same that those in power promote and evangelize.
On the contrary, "anti-government" is the official party line in an era when even the President (Reagan), in his inaugural address says: "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.""
Re:The Artful Propaganda of Soviet Children’s Literature
by tptacek on Sunday June 18, 2017 @06:42AM
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In the first movie, he kills a bunch of policemen and feels he and his friends have been abandoned by the military.
In the second, the military is actively concealing the existence of live POWs in Vietnam. He ends the movie by threatening a military official.
In neither case can you reasonably call the movie "propaganda", at least not without logic that you could use to connects the dots between any movie, from Bridget Jones Diary to Being John Malkovich, to propaganda.
I'm not arguing that the movies are anti-propaganda. I'd call them neutral in that regard.
It's people like HST, Kurt Vonnegut, black musicians and writers, directors like Cassavetes and Kazan and such that embedded a dose of realism to the popular narrative. But anything really mainstream was always 80% sugary propaganda.