Entry 4: Pointing Poster of the Nerdy Kind

Entry 4: Pointing Poster of the Nerdy Kind

   

Dumbledore Wants You To Wizard Rock The Vote
The Harry Potter Alliance
21st century

 One of my favorite book/movie series is Harry Potter from JK Rowling. The fandom is so big that there are fanfiction and concerts based upon the series. When we started to talk abount pointing propaganda posters I thought about a poster that i have in my room that I got at a Wizard Rock concert when I was young. On the poster, a illustration of Professor Albus Dumbledore pointing at the audience. I believe that the poster is trying to get fans to sign up for the Harry Potter Alliance  group which is a activism group. Wizard Rock is a genre of music specifically for fans of Harry Potter.
     

Alfred Leete
1914
" Britons Wants you, John your Country's Army! God Save The King."

     The poster reminded me of Alfred Leete's pointing poster. These type of posters point to the audience and convinced them to do something. The pointing posters were popular in both World Wars. The image below is from World war I and tried to convince the audience to give money for the War Efforts. The picture says, " Britons Wants you, John your Country's Army! God Save The King." It is common for these posters to  guilt trip the audience into doing what the government wants
it's citizens to do. Leete was active during the early 20th century and designed many posters.