Books Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy

It comes with lore?! Might have to get it then.

 

Yeah, but in this case I just figured that meant it comes with text in Aurebesh on the posters, or something.

 

''The thousand-year regime''
As a WW2 history buff I'm enjoying all these Nazi paralells

 

Aw man, I'm loving the art AND the little historical notes that accompany it.

Small question: "There are 2000 Senators inside this building. None of them care about you." The Delegation of 2000 (the 2000 Senators who remained in the Republic but protested Palpatine's actions) is apparently still canon. Plus there's all those Senators who joined the Confederacy.

So if the Senate is seemingly composed of more than 2000 people, why give that number on the poster?

 

This looks great. Love the propaganda art.

Down with Empire.

 

Which site has all of those preview pages ? (I need the source, because the text on the images are too small for me to read )

 

http://jedi-bibliothek.de/blog/2016/03/leseprobe-und-inhaltsangabe-zu-star-wars-propaganda/ -page which found and posted them
Alternatively, http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?group=related&sku=9780062466822

 

Those images are brilliant, but why has this strand rarely been explored?

 

I'm eager to see how far back this goes. I'd love a few surviving posters from the foundation of the Republic, inviting new worlds to join...

 

Empire Day, I love it. All hail our glorious Empire.

 

Amazing stuff, and a nice write up on how the First Order came to be. Nice nod to the local Planetary defense forces in the days before the Empire too. Can't wait for this one.

 

Between this thread and the SWAJ one, I'm going into WEG withdrawal symptoms.

 

This looks very intriguing and different.

 

So if the Galactic Concordance is signed after the Imperial Fleet vanishes following the Battle of Jakku... who does it get signed with? (Also, this contradicts the TFA Visual Dictionary that states that it was the signing of the peace treaty that ended fighting in the battle, with the Imperials jumping directly into the Unknown Regions from there.)

Also, who exactly is paying the reparations to the New Republic? The former Imperial governors personally? The populations of the planets that, according to the NR itself, were oppressed and coerced by the illegitimate, unrepresentative government of the Empire?

 

Clearly this book is just a repackaging of trite New Republic propaganda, glossing over important historical details in order to push its own agenda. I bet it won't even allude to the fact that the Empire was victorious on all fronts.

 

Well, it's not just this book and the TFA VD, though, Lost Stars explicitly has the war continuing for at least a month, with "the treaty" not being the same with the end of the war. And it also has the passage contradicting the de-armament stuff from the TFA VD and Aftermath. So it seems like this entire part of the timeline was not thought out very well, which seems like kind of a big thing to have fumbled over.

 

For episodes 8-9 and the canon to flat-out ignore the 30 years in between ROTJ and TFA would be a worst nightmare scenario. It's inportant to me that Snoke and Sheev exist in the same universe (even if not at the same time).

 

That was always the impression I had of the Concordance, but up until now it seemed like it was meant to be simultaneous with, or literally the same as, the treaty that ended the war. That no longer appears to be the case.

 

They're not aggressively filling that time in because they haven't finished the sequel trilogy yet. Imagine doing a bunch of detailed Dark Times stories right after TPM.