The Intentional Image: Essays on Film Propaganda

This anthology offers a concise but comprehensive theory of propaganda, and employs it to analyze a wide variety of propaganda films. These films range in origin over a full century. We interrogate these films for their rationality. We also examine the ways in which critics of a given piece of propaganda respond to it.

Gary James Jason has published eight previous books, including The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1988); Introduction to Logic (1994); Critical Thinking (2001); Philosophic Thoughts (2013); Purchase, Power, and Persuasion (2021); Cinematic Thoughts (2021); and The Critical Thinking Book (2022). He is a lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton, and has received two awards for excellence in teaching.