Keeping the Masses in Line: Critical Studies of Media, Propaganda
and the Powers of Normalization
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Extermination and propaganda
- Normalization and exclusion
- Discussing current normalization
- The plague model and the state of the leper
- Author Jacques Ellul: Understanding of exclusion
- The idea of the excluded and normalized individual
- Foucault's allegorical use of the Panoptic structure
- Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
- Putnam's evidence that television has greatly influenced social disengagement
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
SummaryAccording to author Toby Clark in Art and Propaganda, Saliger's paintings, as well as those of other German artists who adopted similar themes, represent "qualities of Aryan superiority . . . [and this] supposedly superior physical beauty was held to be the ultimate evidence of natural supremacy" (67). Clark reveals how art can become propaganda when, in works like Saliger's, arts that "intentionally promoted the concept of Aryan beauty and excluded 'ugliness' and 'impurity' were actively complicit with the practice of excluding and ultimately exterminating non-Aryan people" (68). It is no coincidence that German art during the Third Reich looked so similar. There are at least two other paintings almost identical to Saliger's-Adolf Ziegler's Urteil des Paris (1939), and Georg Friedrich's Das Urteil des Paris (1939), and many more that impel similar themes-idolizing powerful male bodies and slim female bodies.
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