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Title: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
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Cast
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| Mark Achbar | ... |
Himself - Interviewer
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| Noam Chomsky | ... |
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Edward S. Herman | ... |
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Storyline
This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America's leading linguists and political dissidents. It also illustrates his message of how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States populous. The key example for this analysis is the simultaneous events of the massive coverage of the communist atrocities of Khmer Rouge regime of Cambodia and the suppression of news of the US supported Indonesian invasion and subjugation of East Timor. Written by Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
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A Primer In Intellectual Self-DefenseParents Guide:
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
6 November 1992 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
Chomsky, les médias et les illusions nécessaires See more »Filming Locations:
American University - 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, USA See more »Company Credits
Production Co:
Humanist Broadcasting Foundation, National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Necessary Illusions Productions Inc. See more »Technical Specs
Runtime:
Sound Mix:
MonoAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1Did You Know?
Trivia
Even though the filmmakers were told they couldn't take video within the New York Times Building, about 12 minutes of "guerrilla footage" was shot. See more »Quotes
[first lines][title card: They who have put out the peoples eyes reproach them of their blindness. - John Milton, 1642. ]
EMTV video host: Three, two, one, take two. Good morning!... My name is Kevin Flook, and I'm your video host all day here at EMTV.
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Crazy Credits
This film is intended to encourage discussion about media and democracy See more »Soundtracks
"Cross-Eyes and Painless"Written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Brian Eno, Talking Heads
Performed by Talking Heads
Published by Index Music
Bleu Disque Co. Inc. (ASCAP)
E.G. Music Ltd (BMI)
Courtesy Sire Records
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
© Warner/Chappell Music Inc.
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This movie, like the title suggests is required viewing for every single person living in the free world. Not many movies can claim to start political and grass-roots movements but this one has.
If you value your intelligence, if you don't believe a pre-fabricated word of what the media machine throws at you, if you want to fight to keep your intellect alive and your own individual thinking original, if you are sick and tired of how this world is NOW and passionately want to change it for the better, then this movie is for you. The movie and accompanying book claim to be primers in intellectual self-defense, which they certainly are but beyond that, they also serve to showcase the many talents of linguist/political dissident/writer/philosopher/professor Noam Chomsky.
I'm surprised the movie didn't win a Best Documentary Oscar, which it certainly should have, perhaps more than anything it just goes to show you that the contents of this movie probably strike too close to home and make the media elite squirm in their seats.
Take 3 hours off some Sunday afternoon instead of watching the football game and WATCH THIS MOVIE, you won't regret it! The movie leaves you with an immense feeling of hope and a profound sense that each one of us can do something actively and constructively in order to make this a better world to live in. If you're apolitical now and/or politically inactive, you won't be after you watch this movie. Guaranteed.