Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

"A Primer In Intellectual Self-Defense"

1992 2h 47m EN

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★7.6TMDB · 96

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A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

“A Primer In Intellectual Self-Defense”

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Cast

Noam Chomsky
Self
Mark Achbar
Self - Interviewer
Edward S. Herman
Self
William F. Buckley Jr.
Self (uncredited)
Peter Jennings
Self (uncredited)
Bill Moyers
Self (uncredited)
Tom Wolfe
Self (uncredited)

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Director: Mark Achbar
Languages: English
Countries: Australia, Finland, Norway, Canada

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RUNTIME

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Clocks in at 167 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.

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ERA

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34 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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WORLD

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International production across 4 countries: Australia, Finland, Norway, Canada.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Mark Achbar, shot by Antonin Lhotsky. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Carl Schultz. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Peter Wintonick shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Noam Chomsky and Mark Achbar and Edward S. Herman carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "A Primer In Intellectual Self-Defense".

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The take

Mark Achbar directs. Antonin Lhotsky behind the camera. Carl Schultz scores. Peter Wintonick cuts. A long sit — settle in. Produced in Australia, Finland, Norway, Canada. Dialogue in English.

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1Clocks in at 167 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
234 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3International production across 4 countries: Australia, Finland, Norway, Canada.
4Directed by Mark Achbar, shot by Antonin Lhotsky. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Carl Schultz. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Peter Wintonick shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Noam Chomsky and Mark Achbar and Edward S. Herman carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "A Primer In Intellectual Self-Defense".
9IMDB entry: tt0104810 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Only 96 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
11Classified under 14 themes, including "propaganda", "media", "professor", "psychoanalysis".

The technical file

Cinematography: Antonin Lhotsky
Original score: Carl Schultz
Editing: Peter Wintonick
Runtime: 167 min · 2h 47m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

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GenerationofSwine2023-01-14
★ 10/10
We have gone from Noam Chomsky, who famously said that you can only have one or two positions on free speech....to a left wing that wants to censor anything remotely offensive to them. The left has gone from this wise old sage to spray painting "Liberals get the bullet too" at protests they are countering to squash free speech. And its gotten to the point where Margaret Atwood had her feminist credentials stripped away, Howard Zinn passed away, anything that is disagreed with is labeled as hate speech...and anyone you disagree with is a Nazi that needs to be hit. The old guard has died and a new insanity has taken its place. We need Noam Chomsky back, we need his politics to return. We need that level-headed reason to come back into the left. Because, clearly, when we stop listening to people like him we open ourselves up for people like Stalin. You need to watch this film, you need to pay attention to it, because right now the left is doing it wrong.

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