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Marxism In The Incredibles

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The world revolves around media, it is what undoubtedly connects us all and allows us to relate to one another; it provides a new platform for culture to develop and engross a growing community. However, media also produces grounds for propaganda to seed and flourish, therefore allowing an individual or group to alter and shape the ideas of a community at large. During the World War II era, Disney actively produced propaganda shorts that revolved around the idea of war and standing unified behind the war efforts at the time. Although this could have been a patriotic move on Disney’s part as he served in World War I, the effort to produce animated shorts about the war was almost entirely driven by the financially unstable Walt Disney Company …show more content…

The movie depicts the story of a superhero family, who, reduced to a 1950’s nuclear style family, struggles to adjust to an average life. Although upon further inspection, the film shows traces of a Marxist perspective as the supers find themselves pitted against the non-supers, who are battling for power; it coincides with Karl Marx’s ideas of the proletariats rising up against the bourgeoisie. The villain, Syndrome, even states that his goal is to provide the technology “so that everyone can be superheroes… And when everyone’s super, no-one will be.” This line shows the effort of the villain rising up against those who have what he does not, real power. These efforts can be further tied into the idea that Syndrome is a representation of a terrorist, attempting to rise up against the “superpower” that is the United States. In cartoons, we always expect the superhero to save the general populace and country from extreme evil; they have power and therefore they are inherently good. As Giroux suggests, Disney implemented these ideas as a way of encouraging people to believe in the government at the time and to “depend on (George W. Bush’s) uncompromising judgments of good and evil”. In this case, George W. Bush would become the superhero, as he has the power and the capability to control the fate of the

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The film took the viewer through the different stages needed to reach a revolution, though it is not clear what happens to the clone. Viewers are left to believe he sparked a controversy back on earth and outed the exploitation/alienation the company was creating. Through Marx’s Historical Materialism, it was easy to apply these stages as the film evolved. Sadly, the final stage in Marx’s ideology has yet to be achieved, but it has definitely been

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“Propaganda is a monologue that is not looking for an answer, but an echo,” (W. H. Auden). World War II, like many other wars, was influenced by myriad of different variables. One variable that echoed throughout America was propaganda. Propaganda was a major influence in the rally for overall support in America during World War II. The propaganda’s intentions in World War II can be broken down into three major categories: war efforts, Anti-German and Anti-Japanese backing, and homefront endeavors.

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During World War II, American studios who wanted to do their part in the war effort started to make cartoons that directly addressed the war efforts. Other studios were taken over by the US government, including Warner Bros. and Disney, to specifically make cartoons so they can get support for the war, and some were produced specifically to be shown to soldiers overseas. Of the cartoons produced some were educational propaganda cartoons depicting a serious tone, they showed how the enemy operated and how life would be if the enemy took over the US. While others were typical cartoons, similar to cartoons you see today, and they were used in a humorous effect to get a laugh out of the audience. Although instead of the typical antagonists like

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