Scott Anthony Lists

Nov 19, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Scott Anthony |Sam Wigley |Soham Gadre |Scott Anthony Lists

“All art is propaganda”, wrote George Orwell, “but not all propaganda is art.” Something similar can be said of film. Film has continually shaped new forms of propaganda, while evolving practices of propaganda have changed film. 

The history of the British propaganda film is a history of how the nation has grappled with some of the biggest questions of the modern world. What is democracy? What is the state? What (even) is Britain?