Fire and Shadow: The 'Nothing if Not' Argument for Hollywood as Propaganda - volume one by Richard Fogarty

Author:Richard Fogarty [Fogarty, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

There is also, as with ‘Blade Runner 2049’ and ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ (2017), for instance, an array of tributes to the original movie, an attention to detail which might easily have been omitted, and a sign of artistic dedication to the inspiration for the project. With 20 directing credits, 17 writing credits, and 27 producer credits, besides being a masterpiece of coordination and design, it is apparent that ‘Bates Motel’ is a very thoroughly planned piece of work, deserving of attention and analysis, though only after we have inured ourselves against its propagandistic toxicity. The themes are all very strong and fully exploited, being carefully managed to take them all as far as they can be taken within a viable storyline. Once we have been attuned to the content and context, through the exposure to a number of episodes, we can be lulled by its familiarity, by our own expectations, and impressed by the clarity of its messages as determined by those Narratives which serve the overarching Agenda. These have been carefully selected in the recipe as being appropriate for the storyline, and rather than these few being muddled by the introduction of a wide range of Narratives, are, instead, reiterated and restated, driven home through flashbacks, verbal comments, or simply images, making them work as well as they could be expected to. This piece of work is a fine example of the culmination of at least a century of harnessing fiction to propaganda, a forthright display of those skills developed and finely tuned, expertly puppeteered from the shadows, and due to our particular insight into its purpose, easily inviting our admiration as much as our censure.

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