Propaganda rages on in world at war

UCC art historian Ann Murray looks at how authorities came to give more thought to managing public opinion

It has been widely observed that one of the most significant lessons that emerged from the experience of the First World War was that public attitudes could no longer be ignored by those in power.

The substantial growth in the production of the photographic image and the burgeoning popularity and accessibility of the cinema meant that the dissemination of information had attained a reach that could have only been imagined even a decade earlier.