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War is a long term thing that needs a lot of supplies such as food, weapon and especially human resources. A country not only needs people to marches into the war, but also people who work and supply resources to the army. To encourage their citizens to engage themselves in helping the country to win the war, they did some posters which were able to persuade the people. This poster is done by Philip Zec during 1941 for British government to encourage women into war industry to help win the war. A woman is act as the main attraction in this poster and the background has factories and planes. The main title in the poster is 'Women of Britain. Come into the Factories'  The sentence 'Women of Britain, Come into the factories' is straight-forward for viewers to know this is a posters who is asking women to work in the factories in order to help win the war.The woman is act a denotation in this poster and her gesture is giving the viewers a kind of feeling where s...

Semiotics have been playing a huge part in political propaganda, it gives meaning to the visual art and most importantly, persuade people to put their trust on certain people who is going to be the leader of the country. 'Thomas W.J. Mitchell defined these powers as power of illusionism and power of realism, or in other words, power of spectacle and power of surveillance' (Teikmanis. A, 2011). When Bernie Sanders was running his presidential campaign in year 2016, the poster 'Not Me, Us' was used.  In this poster, we could see a man holding up his hand, words 'Not Me, Us' on the top left and a lot of different colour of human's silhouettes. As we can see, the man holding up his hand must be Bernie Sanders since he's the one who is running the presidential campaign. The words 'Not Me, Us' would act as a denotation in the poster since the message is straight-forward which means Bernie Sanders would be the president who always put his people...

During the World War II, America had produced propaganda posters 'as major sources of propaganda for perpetuating the government-desired messages and attitudes during the war' (Foley. C, 2015). The posters were usually used to encourage people to do their part according to their abilities. The poster above was sponsored by The Office of War during 1943. It was printed for the War Manpower Commission. The posters has a American flag at the background, two men building something, and a sentence which writes 'United We Win'.  The symbolic signs in this poster is the two men which one of them is an African-American and the other one is a Caucasian. It is telling the citizens that despite the difference such as races or religions between people, they should work together and contribute to the country. And both of them are working on the same job which means no discrimination. And the America flag at the background is symbolic 'because it flies over both men equal...

When Mao Zedong was the president of China, he launched a revolution which is called Cultural Revolution. Cultural Revolution is to ' purge the “impure” elements of Chinese society and revive the revolutionary spirit that had led to victory in the civil war 20 decades earlier and the formation of the People’s Republic of China' (History, 2009).  This ideolody was mostly propagated by the posters. T his revolution has caused one million death toll and it also ' encouraged the eradication of the “Four Olds”—old “things, ideas, customs, and habits,” through which classical literature, art, and architecture were damaged or destroyed' (Burgess. A, 2018). The poster above is in black, white and red colours and the sentence on that poster means 'Chairman Mao leads us to advance'. The people below are looking forward and some of them are holding a book which is 'Little Red Book' by Mao Zedong. It ' contains 267 aphorisms from the Communist Chinese lead...