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Doctor Goebbels: His Life and Death
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Doctor Goebbels: His Life and Death

Quite possibly the most dangerous and intelligent member of the Nazi hierarchy, Joseph Goebbels’s flair for propaganda and spectacular organization ensured the fu¨hrer’s rise to power. As founder of the Reich Chamber of Culture, gauleiter of Berlin, and architect of complex machinery of modern totalitarian propaganda, Goebbels is considered one of the most evil figures of the twentieth century. It was through his understanding of the instruments of “public enlightenment” that the dictatorship was built and maintained. Through interviews with his friends and family and with information from his own unpublished diary, a remarkable picture of Goebbels emerges.
 
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Tags: Goebbels, propaganda, public, enlightenment, dictatorship
Propaganda & Control of the Public Mind
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Propaganda & Control of the Public MindPropaganda & Control of the Public Mind

Politics. Social Criticism. "There's no doubt that one of the major issues of twentieth century history, surely in the US, is corporate propaganda. . . Its goal from the beginning, perfectly openly and consciously, was to 'control the public mind,' as they put it.
 
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Romanticism and Form
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Romanticism and FormRomanticism and Form

Romanticism and Form gives a snapshot of what and where the recent revival of formalism in Romantic Studies is up to, offering new analyses of canonical texts, contextualisations of Romantic forms in relation to war, nationalism, propaganda and empire, reassessments of neglected and marginalised writers and new explorations of the relationship between form and reader.
 
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Tags: Romanticism, 1403994722, pages, Macmillan, Palgrave, Romantic, neglected, reassessments, propaganda
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
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Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda"Propaganda," says Noam Chomsky, "is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state". In this slim pamphlet, he looks at American propaganda efforts, from the warmongering of Woodrow Wilson to the creation of popular support for the 1991 military intervention in Kuwait, and reveals how falsification of history, suppression of information, and the promotion of vapid, empty concepts have become standard operating procedure for the leaders of the United States in their efforts to prevent citizens from raising awkward questions about U.S. policy.

 
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Tags: leaders, Propaganda, efforts, operating, procedure, Propaganda, leaders, United
The Stars Down to Earth - And Other Essays on the Irrational Culture (Routledge Classics)
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The Stars Down to Earth - And Other Essays on the Irrational Culture (Routledge Classics)The essays written here offer an analysis of the irrational dimensions of modern culture which is both timely and disturbing in the 1990s, although they were written by Adorno half a century ago. Adorno's ideas are relevant to the understanidng of phenomena as apparently diverse as astrology and "New Age" cults, the power of neo-fascist propaganda and the re-emergence of anti-Semitism, and the psychological basis of popular culture. The longest essay, "The Stars Come Down To Earth" offers a content analysis of the Astorlogy column in a 1950s Los Angeles newspaper. Adorno argues that the column promotes fascist dependency and social conformism in much the same way as fascist propaganda. He maintains that the same principles operate in the mainstream products of "the culture industry". The three shorter papers illuminate different aspects of Adorno's argument: the relation of occultism to orthodox modern thought, the pervasiveness of anti-Semitism, and the 'psycho-technic' rhetoric of fascist propaganda. Stephen Crook's introduction critically reviews Adorno's argument and offer an assessment of its contemporary relevance. Taken together, these essays offer an astringent antidote to any facile optimism anout the "democratic" and "pluralist" charaxcter of postmodern popular culture. Adorno identifies an irrationlist dynamic which implicates the most "enlightened" and "emancipated" elements of contemporary culture.

 
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Tags: culture, Adorno, propaganda, fascist, Adornos, offer