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Propaganda Animation
Your Job: You will be assigned an important issue or moment from the Cold War.
Looking at this issue from the perspective of a country involved in the Cold War,
you will create a 45 second – 1 minute propaganda animation. Your propaganda
can be in the form of a commercial, public service announcement, or TV or
children’s show with a hidden message. The purpose of your propaganda is to
convince you viewer to feel or think a certain way or to take a particular action.
Very helpful information on the purpose of propaganda can be found here:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Propaganda
Your cartoon must include:
- A central message based on your research of the Cold War.
- An engaging, entertaining, or captivating method used to convey that
message.
- The use of 1-3 propaganda techniques (appeal to fear, appeal to authority,
bandwagon, obtain disapproval, glittering generalities, rationalization,
intentional vagueness, transfer, oversimplification, common man,
testimonials, stereotyping, scapegoating, virtue words, or slogans)
Definitions of these techniques are available here:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Propaganda#Techniques_of_
Propaganda_Generation
- Correct MLA style citations for all sources used. You must use at least one
book source.