The Century of the Self (Episode 4: Eight People sipping Wine in Kettering): too much focus on politics, not enough on culture and society
Adam Curtis, “The Century of the Self (Episode 4: Eight People sipping Wine in Kettering)”
Tag: British Films
The Century of the Self (Episode 3: There is a Policeman inside all Our Heads – He must be Destroyed): a stroll through an amusement park of curious cultural fads and trends
Adam Curtis, “The Century of the Self (Episode 3: There is a Policeman inside all
The Century of the Self (Episode 2: The Engineering of Consent): the use of psychoanalysis as tool for social control
Adam Curtis, “The Century of the Self (Episode 2: The Engineering of Consent)” (2002) This
Coriolanus: an examination of a simple man and his place in a duplicitous and corrupt society
Ralph Fiennes, “Coriolanus” (2011) When I was 28 years of age, a mysterious Shakespeare-reading frenzy seized
The Century of the Self (Episode 1: Happiness Machines): the rise of consumerism, passivity and other anti-democratic forces
Adam Curtis, “The Century of the Self (Episode 1: Happiness Machines)” (2002) Finally after much
Caution, propaganda at work in “Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?”
Annabel Gillings, “Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?” (2011) Eminently likeable scientist-presenter Jim al-Khalili goes on
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: potentially great movie struggling under weak sub-text and sketchy plot
Tomas Alfredsson, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” (2011) I’m too young to know the 1979 BBC TV
Ghostwatch: very funny hoax documentary that blurs reality and fiction, and raises issues about authenticity
Lesley Manning, “Ghostwatch” (1992) Subject of a post on Adam Curtis’s BBC blog, this BBC
It Felt like a Kiss: coming across as a self-indulgent and unremarkable trip into 1960s US pop culture nostalgia
Adam Curtis, “It Felt Like A Kiss” (2009) A quirky visual montage of old newsreels
The Trap … (Episode 3: We will Force You to be Free): picking apart arguments over nature of freedom
Adam Curtis, “The Trap – What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? (Episode 3: We will