![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At one point, Chomsky explains the simple idea that keeps him going: "It's a matter of being able to look yourself in the mirror." It is this mirror that Manufacturing Consent holds up to the media and, ultimately, the audience. Mark Achbar (The Corporation) and Peter Wintonick encourage viewers to question the films own workings, like Chomsky himself encourages listeners to extricate. ![]() Travelling with Chomsky to Canada, Japan, Europe, and all across the United States, we are witness to a tireless, controversial and moral man constantly challenging and being confronted by the public and the press. In the second part, Activating Dissent, he posits that we must undertake "a course of intellectual self-defence," to give meaning back to the democratic process. Drawing on wide-ranging and persuasive examples, Chomsky asserts that media create a false political consensus which undermines true democracy. The first part focuses on the theory and practice of thought control in democratic societies. Nonetheless, Manufacturing Consent is light on its feet, favouring a style that encourages viewers to analyze the film's workings and the documentary form itself. The film is a mammoth two-part documentary that stands at the end of four years of labour. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and outrageous illustrations, the film highlights Chomsky's probing analysis of mass media. Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. ![]()
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