“Mom, You Watch Too Much Imperial News!” – Foreign Agitators and Enemy Propaganda in the New Star Wars Series

The Star Wars universe becomes a surprisingly sharp historical and political mirror in Andor, which concluded last week, and stands out from the franchise's usual offerings by presenting the workings of dictatorships, the nature of mass manipulation and the dilemmas of resistance. Does resistance make sense? What forms does propaganda take in a galaxy far, far away - and how familiar are these forms from Earth? The creators of the Bourne films a…