Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

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Synopsis:

Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and outrageous illustrations, the film highlights Chomsky’s probing analysis of mass media.

A mammoth two-part project, Manufacturing Consent is nonetheless light on its feet, favoring a style that encourages viewers to question its own workings, as Chomsky himself encourages his listeners to extricate themselves from the “web of deceit” by undertaking a course of “intellectual self-defense.”

Appearing in the film are major journalists and critics, including Bill Moyers, William F. Buckley, Jr., Tom Wolfe, Peter Jennings, Jeff Greenfield, philosopher Michel Foucault, White House reporter Sarah McClendon, New York Times editorial writer Karl E. Meyer and revisionist author Robert Faurisson.

Reviews

An invigorating introduction to one of the least soporific of American minds.  NEW YORK TIMES

Eye-opening, mind-expanding entertainment at its finest. A major achievement.  HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Watch out for this film… it can make you think!  Ralph Nader

Memorable… invaluable  THE NATION

An immensely accomplished, entertaining examination of the man and his ideas  THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER