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Noam Chomsky: Personal Influences
199427 min 34 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 on the formative influences in Noam Chomsky's life--those factors which enable him to become a politically engaged intellectual. Starting out as a linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his work revolutionized the study of language, Chomsky was radicalized by the 1960s anti-war movement and became a major critic of American policy. We learn about the important Jewish intellectual influences of his family, as well as those defining incidents in his early schooling that made a lasting impression.
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Subject categories
- Politics and Government > Government and Political LifePortraits
- Media and Communication > Media IssuesPortraitsSocial 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