The series takes its name from the Orwell quote “All art is propaganda . . . on the other hand, not all propaganda is art”—an idea, Walker tells us, perhaps best expressed by the 1956 film version of Orwell’s novel, which was “secretly made by the C.I.A.” We hear old newsreel audio describing the film’s glamorous London première, where there were evening gowns, tuxedos, and people dressed as Thought Police.
He also embraces Brechtian political theatre; one night, he comes home and tells his wife, the novelist Elaine Dundy, “I have seen ‘Mother Courage’ and I am a Marxist.” Meanwhile, Macdonald is hired to write and edit for Encounter for a year, allegedly unaware that it’s a front operation. “So, yeah—in 1956, just as he set out to write his grand theory of mass culture, Dwight Macdonald started working for the C.I.A.,” Walker says. That year, Western propaganda efforts were going strong. The C.I.
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