Like many of the lectures and seminars I have been to I really struggle to find the connection and relevance to my work at first and with this seminar being on the Politics and Propaganda I was at a complete loss before I had even entered the room, as I must admit that I have no interest in politics nor do I know ANYTHING about politics in the slightest.
However, from the discussion we had in our seminar I began to see how animation has been used in the past as a form of propaganda to persuade a large audience that certain political causes are the right thing to do and that they should be supported, the one that comes to my mind first is WW2. Animations of this time were created in order to persuade their audience that the German's were evil and that the war was necessary at the time. For example, in 1943 Disney created an animation called Education for Death: The Making of a Nazi, in which the Nazi's are portrayed as stupid, childish characters. I feel that at the time, this would have been a very effective form of propaganda as it instilled a sense of superiority among the audience.
Other than that I didn't glean much more from this seminar, but I did learn that animation can be used as a very useful form of persuasion and can be used to effectively get a point across to an audience.
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