“Theaters of War”

Decades of movie award ceremonies and other celebrations of the “seventh art” could easily fool us into thinking that the film industry is (and...

Deconstructing Propaganda: From Akkadian Kings to the Digital Age

An interview with Dr. Matthew Alford, conducted by Dr Uliana Artamonova As a propaganda studies expert, Matthew Alford authored the books Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy (2010,...

Propaganda for Beginners, Part 3: Scripted Reality: How political narratives influence and guide our...

Part 3 of the series: Propaganda for Beginners. Part 1 available here, Part 2 available here (Editorial note: This article appeared first in German on...

Mr Nobody Against Putin

Mr Nobody Against Putin: Dr Colin Alexander and producer Helle Faber discuss the Oscar-nominated documentary about propaganda that you ought to see Whenever someone asks...
Television in the dark

“Want a Civilized World? You Won’t Get There Watching Netflix”

Editors Note: This interview with Dr. Matt Alford, co-producer on Theaters of War (2022) and The Writer with No Hands (2014), was originally conducted...