whoa, talk of scientologist subliminal messages in battlefield earth is giving me the heebee jeebees.
Wilson Bryan Key, Ph.D., author of the Age of Manipulation (Henry Holt, 1989), was asked about the feasibility of using an undetectable new technology in subliminals. He provided the following insight: “It is very difficult, if not impossible, to protect yourself from subliminal manipulation. If any movie is produced with a hidden ideological agenda, the effects could be devastating.”
of course, advertising plays with all kinds of stuff regularly. i should probably look more into the pyschology theory of it. it most likely has a lot to do with some of the stuff i’m currently reading in class.