Spain by Jen Silverman Paperback Book 9780573711107

Step into a sophisticated slippery world where the line between truth and fiction is all in the packaging Its 1936 and a pair of passionate filmmakers have landed their next big project a sweeping Spanish Civil War film with the potential to change American hearts and minds It just happens to be bankrolled by the KGB This seductive and funny new play about the art of propaganda and the dangerous ongoing Disinformation Age explores how art can change the world for better and worse quotThe play is above all about the sometimes terrifying power of art how it can be used to changethe minds and hearts of a social set or a generational cohort or God forbid an entire massmediahypnotized populace Art matters whether artists like that fact or notquot Vinson Cunningham The New Yorker