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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

  • 19921992
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 2h 47m
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8.1/10
4.8K
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
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A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
4.8K
YOUR RATING
    • Mark Achbar
    • Peter Wintonick
  • Stars
    • Noam Chomsky
    • Mark Achbar
    • Karin Aguilar-San Juan
    • Mark Achbar
    • Peter Wintonick
  • Stars
    • Noam Chomsky
    • Mark Achbar
    • Karin Aguilar-San Juan
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    • 60User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
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    Noam Chomsky
    Noam Chomsky
    • Self
    Mark Achbar
    Mark Achbar
    • Self - Interviewer
    Karin Aguilar-San Juan
    • Self - South End Collective
    Paul Andrews
    • Self - The Seattle Times
    William F. Buckley
    William F. Buckley
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as William F. Buckley Jr.)
    Robert Faurisson
    • Self
    Jeff Greenfield
    Jeff Greenfield
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (voice)
    Jeff Hansen
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (voice)
    Loie Hayes
    • Self - South End Collective
    Edward S. Herman
    • Self
    Arnold Kohen
    • Self - Journalist
    Robert MacNeil
    Robert MacNeil
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (voice)
    Bill Moyers
    Bill Moyers
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Yossi Olmert
    • Self - Tel Aviv University
    • (archive footage)
    Lydia Sargent
    • Self - Z Magazine
    Greg Shackleton
    • Self - Journalist
    • (archive footage)
    Linda Trichter Metcalf
    • Self - Seminar Participant
    Peter Jennings
    Peter Jennings
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
      • Mark Achbar
      • Peter Wintonick
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    • Trivia
      Up until the release of Mark Achbar's film The Corporation (2003), this was the most successful documentary in Canadian history, playing theatrically in over 300 cities worldwide. It won 22 awards and appeared in more than 50 international film festivals.
    • Quotes

      Noam Chomsky: It means you have to develop an independent mind, and work on it. Now that's extremely hard to do alone. The beauty of our system is that is isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone. Some people can but it's pretty rare. The way to do it is with organization. So of course if there's to be intellectual self defence, it will have to be in the context of political and other organization.

    • Crazy credits
      Canadian and U.S. copyright laws allow "fair dealing" and "fair use" of a copyrighted work for purposes such as comment, criticism, reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, review and quotation.
    • Connections
      Edited from L'affaire Bronswik (1978)
    • Soundtracks
      For What It's Worth
      Written by Stephen Stills

      Performed by Buffalo Springfield

      Produced by Charles Greene and Brian Stone

      Courtesy of Ten East Music, Springalo & Cotillion (BMI)

      Published by Warner-Tamerlan Publishing Corp.

      By Arrangement with Warner Special Products

      © Warner/Chappell Music Inc.

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    10/10
    Manufacturing One Of The Best Documentaries Ever
    The film makers, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, achieve the seemingly impossible by turning Noam Chomsky's dry political theories and persona into a fascinating, entertaining movie, and all on a presumably tight budget. If you want to gain insight into the workings of the US media system then this movie will give you some food for thought. Hardly surprising then that Hollywood did not award them an Oscar for this, even thought they sure would have deserved one.
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    • Release date
      • November 6, 1992 (Australia)
      • Canada
      • Netherlands
      • Finland
      • Norway
      • Australia
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Erin Mills Mall - 5100 Erin Mills Parkway, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Necessary Illusions Productions Inc.
      • National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
      • Téléfilm Canada
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    • 2 hours 47 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Color
      • Mono

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