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Propaganda: The Manufacture of Consent

We will be screening and discussing the PBS documentary: PROPAGANDA: THE MANUFACTURE OF CONSENT.

We will be screening and discussing the PBS documentary: PROPAGANDA: THE MANUFACTURE OF CONSENT. It is a revealing documentary about how public relations grew out of wartime propaganda-and a portrait of its architect, Edward Bernays. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Bernays refined the techniques used so successfully during the war to sell products to consumers, and ultimately to sell capitalism itself to workers. Public relations was also critical in building support for the New Deal, and in the pushback against it from the National Association of Manufacturers, which created materials including films aimed at children on the glories of manufacturing. Featuring Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Public Relations Museum co-founder Shelley Spector, historian Stuart Ewen, sociologist David Miller, and Bernays' daughter Anne, PROPAGANDA offers an insightful look into the development of public relations techniques, and how they continue to affect us today. The documentary can be accessed through the Library's ebook/documentary/movie database Hoopla. https://www.hoopladigital.com/movie/propaganda-the-manufacture-of-consent-noam-chomsky/15044121

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