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Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

Mark Poster
Government, Abuse, Enemy

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

Mark Poster
Doe, Way, Revolution
Mark Poster (2006). “Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines”, p.121, Duke University Press

Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.

Mark Poster
Vehemence, Today, Equal
Mark Poster (1978). “Critical Theory of the Family”, New York : Seabury Press

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

Mark Poster
Relation, Late, Aesthetics

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

Mark Poster
Class, People, Film

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