"But that kind of simple, direct propaganda---straightforwardly advocating for your own interests while demonizing your enemies---is hard to maintain across 50

"But that kind of simple, direct propaganda---straightforwardly advocating for your own interests while demonizing your enemies---is hard to maintain across 50 years: it’s the stuff of hot war, geopolitical enemies that are more visceral than existential. At the most extreme, a Two Minutes Hate stretched to Ninety. Direct propaganda doesn’t exclude the possibility of art---Casablanca is a propaganda film and one of the best films ever made---but the cinematic propaganda of the Cold War operated at a more subtle level, as a kind of meta-propaganda."