Theater & Propaganda

by George Szanto

This original and insightful study explores the points at which theater and propaganda meet. Defining propaganda as a form of "activated ideology," George H. Szanto discusses the distortion of information that occurs in dramatic literature in its stage, film, and television forms.

Szanto analyzes the nature of "integration propaganda," which is designed to render the audience passive and to encourage the acceptance of the status quo,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292737343
• ISBN13: 9780292737341
• Release Date: December 1977
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"