Sunday, 21 November 2010

Protest Graphics 2


Roger Fenton's 1855 photo of the Crimean war

War and Subversion:

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to the totalitarian state.”

Noam Chomsky (2002) Media Control, pp.20-21


World War II

  • 1939-1945 UK

  • National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939

  • all men 18-41 liable for conscription

  • National Service 1941

  • unmarried women between 20-30 called up

  • birth of modern propaganda techniques

    used to generate public support for war

    used to mobilise non-combatants i.e.

  • civilians, in support of the “war effort”

Posters for Recruitment:


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