NFB Collection
A Propaganda Model of the Media Plus Exploring Alternative Media
199458 min 43 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Mark AchbarPeter Wintonick
Production: Mark AchbarPeter WintonickAdam SymanskyDennis MurphyColin NealeFrancis Miquet
Co-produced by Necessary Illusions Productions Inc. and the NFB with the financial assistace of Telefilm Canada and in association with Vision/TV Canada, HOS Holland, YLE-TV2 Finland, NRK Norway and SBS Australia.
A Propaganda Model of the Media, plus Exploring Alternative Media, provides an ideal introduction to the six modules in the package. Beginning with Chomsky's response to a college student who role-plays "Jane U.S.A."--someone who naively believes she lives in a democratic society in which she can create her own destiny--the viewer is presented with a cross-section of typically lively Chomsky encounters. Central to a functioning democracy is the necessity of free access to information, ideas and opinions. But what should be our democratic right turns out to be limited and shaped by the biases of insitutions and ideologies within the mass media. Chomsky shows how governments, corporations and other elites manufacture the consent of the public to serve their interests.
Subject categories
- Politics and Government > DemocracyPortraits
- Media and Communication > PortraitsSocial Issues
Credits
- director
- Mark Achbar
- Peter Wintonick
- producer
- Mark Achbar
- Peter Wintonick
- Adam Symansky
- executive producer
- Dennis Murphy
- Colin Neale
- associate producer
- Francis Miquet
- cinematography
- Francis Miquet
- Mark Achbar
- Barry Perles
- Norbert Bunge
- Ken Reeves
- Kip Durrin
- Bill Snider
- Savas Kalogeras
- Kirk Tougas
- Antonin Lhotsky
- Peter Wintonick
- sound
- Katharine Assals
- Gary Marcuse
- Leigh Crisp
- Hans Oomes
- Jacques Drouin
- Robert Silverthorne
- editing
- Peter Wintonick
- sound editing
- Katharine Assals
- animation
- Joan Churchill
- Mark Achbar
- Brian Duchscherer
- Katharine Assals
- Wendy Tilby
- music
- Carl Schultz