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What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever.
"It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN
Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic...
"It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN
Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic...
2) North Korea's hidden revolution: how the information underground is transforming a closed society
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"One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly into the country, and fault lines are appearing in the government's sealed informational borders. Drawing on deeply personal interviews with North Korean defectors from all walks of life, ranging from propaganda artists to diplomats, Jieun Baek tells the story of North...
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Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. From an examination of how Woodrow...
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Utopia
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Hollywood Signs is the documentary that celebrates autograph collecting, collectors, and our obsession with celebrities. It focuses on autograph dealing, the history of the autograph, autograph conventions, celebrities' point of view, and, of course, the folks whose lives revolve around autographs. Hollywood Signs is a love letter to a world with characters you definitely don't see every day.
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Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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YOU CAN'T KILL MEME follows a filmmaker’s three year descent into the anonymous internet underworld, tracking the spread of an insidious strain of extremist occult magic. While investigating the influence of online misinformation on the 2016 election, the filmmaker infiltrates the shadowy corners of Internet forums 4chan and Reddit. There, she learns of the book Memetic Magic, a field manual for conjuring “thought viruses” capable of sowing...
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Gravitas
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Twenty-one year old Ben is following his TV-obsessed Dad to explore how television consumption has evolved from one generation to the next. Television used to bring people together. Does television now fragment us as a culture? Nominated for Best Documentary at **New York City International Film Festival**, **Los Angeles CineFest**, and **WorldFest Houston**.
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Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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From Willie Nelson to Wilco, Ray Charles to Radiohead, A SONG FOR YOU: AUSTIN CITY LIMITS offers the ultimate backstage pass and front row seat to 40 years of incredible music from the longest running music show in TV history. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the **Nashville Film Festival.** "*This stem-to-stern look at the institution centered in the "Live Music Capital of the World" traces the...
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Media Education Foundation
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2018.
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English
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When the world-renowned cultural and political theorist Stuart Hall died in 2014, he left behind an unfinished 300,000-word memoir. In this interview with MEF Executive Director Sut Jhally, Bill Schwarz talks about the challenges of preparing the final published book, detailing his negotiations and conversations with the disembodied words of an author who cherished dialogue above all else.
9) A Brony Tale
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Virgil Films and Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Canadian voice-over artist, Ashleigh Ball, has been the voice of numerous cartoon characters. However, when she was hired as the voice of Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash on the 4th generation installment of Hasbro’s ‘*My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*’ series, she had no idea she was about to become an internet phenomenon and voice celebrity among a very unique type of fan, the Bronies. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. Nominated...
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Good Deed Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Over the past three decades, speedrunners have been collaboratively digging for secrets, working to uncover mind-blowing shortcuts and glitches which are used to streamline their runs. Running with Speed follows top runners, from the past and present, of gaming franchises that are pillars in speedrunning: Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid. World records in these retro classics are especially revered. The series culminates at the...
11) Art of the Prank
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Video Project
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2017.
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English
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This documentary is about New York artist Joey Skaggs, the godfather of the media hoax. Famed for such media fictions as the Celebrity Sperm Bank, the Cathouse for Dogs, the Fat Squad, and Portofess, all reported as fact by prestigious journalists, he's one of America's greatest living satirists. When Skaggs decides to pull off the most demanding hoax of his career, filmmaker Andrea Marini gets a unique view into the mind of this most unconventional...
12) Doctor Who Am I
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Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Infamous Doctor Who screenwriter, Matthew Jacobs, is reluctantly dragged back into the American 'Whoniverse' to face the fandom that brutally rejected his work 25 years earlier.
13) Darkon
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SeeThink Films
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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The 2006 cult-hit documentary DARKON covers an epic war raging through the realm of Darkon (an American LARP). Skip Lipman, a suburban stay-at-home dad leads his rebel army in a monumental quest to topple a mighty empire and lead the Realm to new era of liberty and glory. A beloved adventure in the quirky imaginations of suburban Americans, DARKON investigates the LARPers lives in the game and out of the game offering insight into our complex relationship...
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Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1991.
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English
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Documentary tracing the development and production of the mini-series '"Lonesome Dove" (1989), from Larry McMurtry's novel of the same name. Stars Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, among others, described the circumstances of filming, and director Simon Wincer comments on the adaptation of the novel. Others from the crew, including wranglers and stuntmen, describe some of the difficulties of this massive project.
16) Brand new you
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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What do popular television makeover programs like What Not to Wear, The Biggest Loser, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and The Swan tell us about how to look and feel? What do they tell us about what a good life looks like in contemporary America? This new film based on Katherine Sender's book The Makeover explores these questions against the backdrop of American ideals of self-invention and upward mobility. Asking what it means to be an authentic...
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A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. "Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink, all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue." In these funny and...
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1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most impactful children's series in TV history. From the iconic furry characters to the classic songs you know by heart, learn how a gang of visionary creators changed our world.
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FilmRise
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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This documentary enters the unexplored realm of professional eSports, as told through the eyes of two of the world’s best StarCraft II players. Together with striking visuals and a mesmerizing original score, go behind the scenes and experience the high-pressure, high-stakes lifestyles of professional gamers.
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