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US
/ˈædʒətˌpɹɔp/
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[ UK /ˈædʒɪtpɹˌɒp/ ]
[ UK /ˈædʒɪtpɹˌɒp/ ]
NOUN
- political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema
How To Use agitprop In A Sentence
- Beijing this winter is festooned with orange banners and billboards that look like Communist agitprop.
- But underneath the agitprop is financial violence: handouts to the wealthy, destruction of our infrastructure, desecration of the environment, and abandonment of the needy. Bob Burnett: Election 2010: Choosing the Abuser
- Shot in a realistic mode inspired by the agitprop classic The Battle of Algiers, Bloody Sunday is taut, terse and livid.
- From 1922 his stylistically radical work was put to utilitarian ends, including the design of speakers' tribunes and latterly agitprop photomontage and graphic design.
- His targets include politics and religion, but it is not a political play in any agitprop sense.
- Outgrowing the constraints of the street and agitprop meant that they started to really work.
- That a once-respected and influential journal should publish this kind of agitprop is truly disgraceful. Ledeen and Chinese ‘Fascism’ « Antiwar.com Blog
- Indeed, TV agitprop from the period shows how backing for the war was won ideologically - through the fear of the evils of Communism during the Cold War, and through the jingoism towards a ‘people who live out there’.
- In 1970, Mr Pozsgay joined the Agitprop department - the party's watchdog on ideological purity and the media.
- If you're going to do agitprop you have to be incredibly focused.