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Adam Curtis - 3 documentaries about society
    #7370618 - 09/05/07 11:59 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Three documentaries that I really recommend to anyone are Adam Curtis' The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares, and The Trap.

You can find all of the documentaries here: (~5GB) http://www.mininova.org/tor/729127

or if you prefer them separately...

The Century of the Self:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/226062

The Power of Nightmares:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/401752

The Trap: (3 parts)
http://www.mininova.org/tor/617179
http://www.mininova.org/tor/627512
http://www.mininova.org/tor/636001


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_Of_The_Self

This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed the perception of the human mind and its workings profoundly. His influence on the 20th century is widely regarded as massive.

The documentary describes the impact of Freud's theories on the perception of the human mind, and the ways public relations agencies and politicians have used this during the last 100 years for their "engineering of consent".

Among the main characters are Freud himself and his nephew Edward Bernays, who was the first to use psychological techniques in advertising. He is often seen as the "father of the public relations industry".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares

This documentary argues that during the 20th Century politicians lost the power to inspire the masses, and that the optimistic visions and ideologies they had offered were perceived to have failed.

The film asserts that politicians consequently sought a new role that would restore their power and authority. Curtis, who also narrates the series, declares in the film's introduction that, Instead of delivering dreams, politicians now promise to protect us: from nightmares.

To illustrate this Curtis compares the rise of the American neoconservatives and radical Islamists, believing that both are closely connected; that some popular beliefs about these groups are inaccurate; and that both movements have benefited from exaggerating the scale of the terrorist threat.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_(television_documentary_series)

The series consists of three one-hour programmes which will explore the concept and definition of freedom, specifically "how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom.

Curtis examines the rise of game theory during the Cold War and the way in which its mathematical models of human behaviour filtered into economic thought.




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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.


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Re: Adam Curtis - 3 documentaries about society [Re: trendal]
    #13911534 - 02/05/11 05:32 PM (13 years, 14 days ago)

Bump.

These documentaries are truly revealing/enlightening in my opinion, some of the best I've ever seen. They're approached in a very matter of fact taciturn way and the footage chosen really helps to amplify the points made.

Personally I'd say that The Century of The Self is the best of all of them as it deals with Consumerism as our dominant form of social control. It will really make you question the way we behave.


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