1. After reading Sennett's “Film Propaganda: Triumph of the Will as a Case Study,” how do you feel about the relationship between political art and propaganda? Can art be political without being propaganda? Can art ever be objective? Extra: Consider the quote: "As if technique could exist independently of politics. But aesthetics are not politically neutral or value free."
2. How might have Hitler and the Third Reich's community-based propaganda actually separated Germans? What is the strategy of propaganda? (i.e. turning on one another for the good of the community) Consider the German youth (in Hitler Jugend) told to report their parents, and "transfer allegiance from family to the national community and to subordinate individualism..." (Welch)
3. What is the significance of a passive audience/consumer, as Welch describes in his last pages? Perhaps propaganda does not always radicalize the consumer-- what, then, can its effect be? Do you think you have either passively or radically consumed propaganda?
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