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Agitprop has entered documentary film-making with a vengeance. The Thin Blue Line, Roger & Me, and A Brief History of Time, to name the most prominent of recent documentaries, are very clear about what axe they are grinding. With similarly iconoclastic methods, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media shows us aborted interviews, archival
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is the companion book to the celebrated film of the same name about world-renowned linguist and social theorist Noam Chomsky.Winner of 15 international awards, Manufacturing Consent played commercially to packed theatres in over 300 cities worldwide and aired on national TV in 15 countries.
Jun 1, 1994 · Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is the companion book to the celebrated film of the same name about world-renowned linguist and social theorist Noam Chomsky. Winner of 15 international awards, Manufacturing Consent played commercially to packed theatres in over 300 cities worldwide and aired on national TV in 15 countries.
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- Mark Achbar
Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky and the Media, the companion book to the award-winning film, charts the life of America's most famous dissident, from his boyhood days running his uncle's newsstand in Manhattan to his current role as outspoken social critic.
The film is a mammoth two-part documentary that stands at the end of four years of labour. Nonetheless, Manufacturing Consent is light on its feet, favouring a style that encourages viewers to analyze the film's workings and the documentary form itself. The first part focuses on the theory and practice of thought control in democratic societies.
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Manufacturing Consent is an immensely frustrating film. The documentary, which showcases Noam Chomsky's anarchist-socialist critique of the American media, purports to be an expose, a skewering of the deception and manipulation perpetrated on the public by the corporate-governmental establishment.
