Robert McChesney
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Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Overview: Has America entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for truth? The country's leading intellectuals discuss and examine the mix of businesses, politics and ideology that is the mainstream media.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-23
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The Merchants of Cool
Overview: A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.
Genres: Documentary History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-27
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Digital Disconnect
Overview: In this era of Facebook privacy breaches, "fake news" and filter bubbles, this essential film trains its sights on the relationship between the internet and democracy. Tracing the internet's history as a publicly funded government project in the 1960s to its full-scale commercialization today, the film traces how the revolutionary, democratizing potential of the internet has been radically compromised by the growing and unaccountable power of a handful of telecom and tech monopolies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-08
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Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
Overview: Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of studios and their owners, rather than entertainment in their own right. Behind the Screens explores this trend toward "hypercommercialism" through phenomena such as product placement, tie-ins, merchandising and cross-promotions. It combines multiple examples taken directly from the movies with incisive interviews provided by film scholars, cultural critics, political economists, and an Oscar-nominated screenwriter. Behind the Screens presents an accessible argument designed for school and college-age audiences-- precisely the demographic most prized by both Hollywood studios and advertisers alike. It features examples drawn from movies such as Wayne's World, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, Summer of Sam, and Toy Story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Overview: Robert McChesney lays the blame for the US's current state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from delivering on their promises of more choice and more diversity, have organized a system characterized by a lack of competition, homogenization of opinion and formulaic programming.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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