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Building on the concepts of propaganda
identified in the introduction, this chapter briefly
investigates the difference between propaganda within
totalitarian states (as generally associated with halitarian
states dictatorships, particularly the Nazis) and within
democracies (where the British considered they were
producing information). The Nazis, backing their propaganda
with violence, believed that they were building upon
the British First World War model that the British had
provided. It will briefly consider the origins of propaganda,
British propaganda in the First World War, and developments
in the inter-war years. It will consider the theories
and models available to the British at the outbreak
of war.
The majority of this chapter
will consider posters as tools of propaganda. It will
enable the historical context of the British wartime
experience of posters to be understood, from the late
19th Century (modernity) until the outbreak of the
Second World War. This chapter will foreground the
British experience of poster design within the world-wide
context, considering the growth of pictorial posters
and the graphic design movements associated with them.
The poster will be considered as a commercial tool,
with growing professionalisation, and the significance
of travel posters including those by Shell and the
London Underground. The use of posters by governments
will also be considered, in the First World War, by
political parties, as a tool of protest, and the use
of state-sponsored schemes in the inter-war years.
Propaganda
I Posters I Graphic
Design I Branding & Advertising
I Political Parties
See PhD
Proposal and Bibliography
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