Frances Halladay is dancing down Catherine Street in New York, her body moving in time to David Bowie's Modern Love: Bowie sings: Modern love - walks beside meModern love - walks on byModern love - gets me to the church on timeChurch on time - terrifies meChurch on time - makes me partyChurch on time - puts my trust in god and manGod and man - no confessionsGod and man … [Read more...] about Frances Ha, Modern Love & The Commercialization of Dissent
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The Men Who Made Us Spend: More information, links, quotes and notes from the BBC TV programme
In The Men Who Made Us Spend BBC TV series, journalist Jacques Peretti examines consumerism. The three thought-provoking programmes explore, in order, how product lifespan, fear and children are used to drive consumption. Peretti sets out to answer the questions "why do we buy what we buy?", and "how is our desire to spend manipulated?" by interviewing experts, influential … [Read more...] about The Men Who Made Us Spend: More information, links, quotes and notes from the BBC TV programme
Adam Curtis on media manipulation
The film interviews a whole host of extraordinary bit players from the Texas world and builds up a very powerful mood of uncertainty and suspicion. Underlying this is a message that says these hidden forces in America will never allow you to know the truth. Which means that what you are told by the media may be a lie. That you are being manipulated. via BBC - Blogs - Adam … [Read more...] about Adam Curtis on media manipulation