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Television · 2002
The Century of the Self
This four-part series traces how ideas drawn from psychoanalysis were adopted by corporations, public-relations strategists, and political movements. It argues that appeals to unconscious desire helped reshape consumer culture and democratic politics across the twentieth century.
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4 hours of a brain-melting cacophony of ideas of how people are fundamentally constructed to fuck themselves over again and again. If Errol Morris directed Groundhog Day , only if it took place over the course of the 20th century.
Jake Isgar on Letterboxd Adam Curtis is a BBC documentarian who is a rank above his peers; I’d also describe him as a first-class sociological explorer, an articulate pundit and a collage artist who made the 4-hour The Century of the Self
chavel on Letterboxd My first foray into this acclaimed filmmaker, tonight I'll journey with Adam Curtis as he unravels the "all-consuming self" in his monumental documentary The Century of the Self , driving the importance of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis and repressed feelings and the unleashing of a new human behavior in the 20th Century. A documentary lover like myself would be remiss to overlook this singular storyteller in Britain's own Curtis, but here in America he's just not a household name at all.
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