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Concision: No Time for New Ideas
199414 min 37 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 assistance of Telefilm Canada and in association with Vision/TV Canada, HOS Holland, YLE-TV2 Finland, NRK Norway and SBS Australia.
This video focuses primarily on the implications of the structure and format of television, especially the consequences of concision, and how these factors can shape the messages of the medium. In addition, other issues, such as how democracies handle dissenters, and how the mainstream media have treated the challenges of Chomsky's media critiques are explored. The media construct reality, and in the conclusion we see the author participating in that very process.
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- Politics and Government > DemocracyGovernment and Political LifePortraits
- Media and Communication > Journalism and News ReportingPortraitsSocial IssuesTelevision Broadcasting and Production
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