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- Release Date: 2007
- Runtime: 167 min
- Genre: Documentary, War
- Starring: Mark Achbar, Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman, William F. Buckley ... see all
- Director: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
- Plot: 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... Read more
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| Dec 04, 2007DVD Talk
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is good filmmaking, but it could have been even better with a less diluted 120 minute runtime.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is a call to action which identifies a problem and proposes a solution.
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| May 05, 1993Washington Post
Whether Chomsky's analysis of the culture is accurate is, of course, up to the viewer.
If what the subject of Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick's superb, thought-provoking documentary, "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media," says is true, then the ideas discussed in this review may well be curtailed, censored or otherwise suppressed.
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| Apr 30, 1993Washington Post
The film is politically and intellectually potent, even infuriating, whether you agree with Chomsky or disagree with him.
Chomsky's wide-ranging critical eye eventually zeroes in on all areas of the culture at large, including, of course, entertainment.
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Exclaim! Canada
The second disc is a wonderful collection of the full versions of the various interviews and debates featured throughout the film.
As he says in the film, Chomsky loves America and the freedom it provides him.
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Jam! Movies
With iconoclast Peter Wintonick, Achbar co-directed the brilliant doc Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky And The Media.
The Corporation is an excellent example of how a documentary can be as visually stimulating as a fiction film.
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The U.S. has pursued supremacy in the information sector as a conscious plank of its foreign policy.
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2003-06-01
IN a post-Cold War unipolar world, the so-called globalisation of the information sector is tantamount to the accession and celebration of an Americanised worldview, which incorporates regional variants to the extent that they subscribe to the larger scheme of things. ... Full Article
As the title suggests, this nearly three-hour long documentary focuses on the work of MIT linguistics professor Chomsky, a man who is not only one of the most brilliant intellectuals of our time, but also a strident political activist, so... ... Full Article
Noam Chomsky, toward the beginning of Manufacturing Consent , tells someone that he can't imagine why an audience would want to watch him talk for an hour. ... Full Article
This two-disc 15th anniversary special edition is a welcome treat. The renowned MIT Linguistics professor and writer comes across in the film as a modern-day philosopher, informing the public about such egregious acts as the American-sponsored genocide in East Timor,... ... Full Article