One measure of critical media is whether the target of the criticism can re-appropriate it as propaganda. Lots of fash show American History X with like 10 minutes edited out. Do any fash show The Producers?
The problem with limiting your satire to something like The Producers is that it has to be reactive in nature. It wasn't critical to fascism as an ideology, it made fun of Hitler specifically. If it was contemporary and Hitler was an issue it could be more biting, like in The Great Dictator.
Do you think anyone came out of it reflecting on militarism and the actions of the US during the cold war?
One measure of critical media is whether the target of the criticism can re-appropriate it as propaganda. Lots of fash show American History X with like 10 minutes edited out. Do any fash show The Producers?
The problem with limiting your satire to something like The Producers is that it has to be reactive in nature. It wasn't critical to fascism as an ideology, it made fun of Hitler specifically. If it was contemporary and Hitler was an issue it could be more biting, like in The Great Dictator.
Do you think anyone came out of it reflecting on militarism and the actions of the US during the cold war?