Garry Potter (Firm)
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English
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The film first presents a brief introduction to the thinking of a few of the more famous members of the Frankfurt School - Eric Fromm, Herbert Marcuse - including the second generation Frankfurt school thinker: Jurgen Habermas. Most importantly the film looks at the ideas of Max Horkheimer and Theodore Adorno. A presentation of the work the Authoritarian Personality is given before a more detailed engagement of the concept of the "the culture industry"...
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English
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This film explores the media depictions of the end of the world through various disaster scenarios. It analyses the disjuncture between real risks versus the public perception of such. It illustrates the functioning of mystification to obscure the real causes of humanity's most serious problems. Finally, it asks and answers the question "what is to be done?"
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English
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This film approaches the concept of ideology through the cruder notion of people being “brainwashed.” It then moves on to the Marxist notion of false consciousness, followed by an explanation of Althusser’s concept of Ideological State Apparatuses and Gramsci’s ideas about hegemony and counter-hegemony.
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English
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The film explores the damage done to higher education, to research, to students and faculty through the ever-increasing reliance upon precarious labor. The film examines the situation of contract faculty, sessionals as they are known in Canada, adjuncts as they are called in the US, largely through their own testimony and that of full time professors as well.
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English
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Ferdinand de Saussure was considered both the "father of modern linguistics" and the founder of a new discipline: semiology. Semiology is the study of 'signs' and attempts to be a science of meaning. The film explains the fundamental ideas of such though numerous examples.
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English
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This film first presents Freud's major ideas about the unconscious mind before showing some of the most common criticisms of such. The film then considers Lacan's modifications to Freudian theory and demonstrates how he thus solves some key problems with the original concepts, most particularly the Oedipus complex.
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English
Description
Dystopia is a word to label fictional portrayals of negative utopias. This film deals with the very real hell on earth that is experienced by nearly a billion people right now. It predicts that the dystopia that is here for many will become increasingly prevalent for more and more of us. Humanity faces many different sorts of crises: environmental, political, and economic. These crises will continue to worsen unless the drastic systemic change is...