Captain Marvel: Propaganda?

Lots of people on youtube.com are talking about how Captain Marvel is feminist, SJW, propaganda. It's not.

It's military propaganda.

Pop Culture Detective Video on similar subject: Military Recruitment and Hollywood

(I realize this is not the most unique Captain Marvel take but fell down a google hole researching the air force advertising and I figured I should put it all somewhere.)

Some sources for this video;

We Were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler

Operation Hollywood by David Robb

Reel Power Matthew Alford

This excellent piece by Sarah Lazare and Dean Spade http://inthesetimes.com/article/21682...
(for the Ellerby and Enloe quotes)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/...

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-0...

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...

https://www.newsweek.com/captain-marv...

https://www.defensenews.com/video/201...

There's also a great Citations Needed episode that digs into this more deeply. (Medium: episode-65-how-empire-uses-feminist-branding-to-sell-war-and-occupation)

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