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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