Movies: Robert McChesney
- 2003
Orwell Rolls in His Grave (2003)
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Has America entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for truth? The country's leading intellectuals discuss and examine the mix of businesses, politics and ideology that is the mainstream media....
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- 2001
The Merchants of Cool (2001)
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A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers....
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- 2000
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial (2000)
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Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of studios and their owners, rather than entertainment in their own right. Behind the Screens explores this trend toward "hypercommercialism" through p...
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- 2003
Rich Media, Poor Democracy (2003)
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Robert McChesney lays the blame for the US's current state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from delivering on their promises of more choice and more diversity, have organized a system characterized...
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- 2018
Digital Disconnect (2018)
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In this era of Facebook privacy breaches, "fake news" and filter bubbles, this essential film trains its sights on the relationship between the internet and democracy. Tracing the internet's history as a publicly funded government project in the 1960...
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