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Éric Zemmour: "Cinema, this ideological weapon"

2021-01-13T19:46:54.121Z


CHRONICLE - A fine analysis of Hollywood as a tool of massive propaganda, by Pierre Conesa. Cinema is the continuation of politics by other means.


You are comfortably installed in a red armchair;

you absent-mindedly munch on a packet of popcorn;

a film scrolls before your dazed eyes;

you ignore it but you are in politics.

You believe that the cinema is a factory of dreams, when it is first of all a factory of ideologies;

you think someone is telling you a story when you are being brainwashed.

You are convinced that only the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, Nazi and Communist, have used the cinema as a propaganda machine;

you remembered the names of Leni Riefenstahl or Eisenstein;

you have not noticed that democracies, French or American, are also very talented;

and that the best movie machine in the world, Hollywood, is also logically a weapon of massive propaganda that surpasses anything we have seen in history.

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This ideological dimension of cinema in general, and of Hollywood in particular, is at the heart of Pierre Conesa's book.

This amateur and geopolitical cinephile

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Source: lefigaro

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