Manufacturing Consent

Name: Manufacturing Consent
Director: Mark Achbar,Peter Wintonick
Released: 1992

Mark Achbar Peter Wintonick 1992

This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America’s leading linguists and political dissidents. It also illustrates his message of how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States populous. The key example for this analysis is the simultaneous events of the massive coverageby the New York Times of the communist atrocities of Khmer Rouge regime of Cambodia and the suppression of news of the US supported Indonesian invasion and subjugation of East Timor.

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Running Time:

167 min.

Spoken Languages:

English

Directors:

Mark Achbar Peter Wintonick

Producers:

Mark Achbar, Adam Symansky, Peter Wintonick

Editors:

Peter Wintonick

Production Companies:

Necessary Illusions Productionsmarx

Activism

American History

History

Investigative Journalism

Press

Emanuel Levy

A long, fascinating docu about the noted MIT professor and his lifelong work about propaganda in American society, or more specifically how the mass media set the agenda by selecting, distorting, framing--and also ignoring--major social issues.
Cole Smithey

Essential.
Time Out

Thoroughly engrossing.

Festival Participation

Chicago International Film Festival - 1992
Gold Hugo
Toronto International Film Festival - 1992
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation
Vancouver International Film Festival - 1992
Most Popular Canadian Film
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival - 1993
Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize

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