EMILY FLANAGAN
COP3 RESEARCH PROPOSAL
The question I have chosen is ‘To what extent do the individual politics of professional practitioners impact on the role and function of Illustration’ I wish to look at the politics side of this question in terms of the way that people can be effected and influenced by the political opinion of others.
This could include illustrative practitioners, the entertainment industry, media outlets. I want to focus on these politics and how they affect individuals in a communist environment versus a capitalist environment. I propose to look at how propaganda is used to sway public opinion regarding politics In North Korea versus the UK.
5 relevant/related subjects Rupert Murdoch newspapers/ how they are affiliated with tory government and print in favour of them. How the media in NK is run by the government
similarities / differences between north Korean artists working against the regime similarities / differences between UK artists working against the system mechanisms of Propaganda
5 relevant quotes “If North Koreans paused to contemplate the obvious inconsistencies and lies in what they were told, they would find themselves in a dangerous place. They didn't have a choice. They couldn't flee their country, depose their leadership, speak out, or protest. In order to fit in, the average citizen had to discipline himself not to think too much.” ― Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ― George Orwell
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” ― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
5 relevant books Escape From Camp 14 Nothing To Envy The Impossible State Animal Farm 1984
5 relevant websites Liberty in North Korea NK news.com The Independent The Daily Mail Murdoch’s Red Tops.