Weapons

Weapons

The Weapons of Mass Distraction series is a set of five promotional videos
that focus on the relationship between media and the audience.

Session 1: Glamour explores the artifice of advertising.
Session 2: Mass compares television and nuclear weapons.
Session 3: Gaze revisits Jon Berger’s woman watching herself being looked at.
Session 4: Spectacle was based on Guy Debord’s seminal book.
Session 5: Uprising is currently in production.

Posted: February 12th, 2003
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Weapons: Session 1: Glamour

Weapons: Glamour

Glamour explores the artifice of the advertising industry. Currently unavailable for viewing due to legal issues.

Posted: February 12th, 2003
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Weapons: Session 2: Mass

Weapons: Mass

Mass compares television and nuclear weapons, loosely based on the prologue to Niel Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death.

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Posted: February 12th, 2003
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Weapons: Session 3: Gaze

Weapons: Gaze

Gaze revisits Jon Berger’s woman watching herself being looked at.

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Posted: February 12th, 2003
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Weapons: Session 4: Spectacle

Weapons: Spectacle

Spectacle was based on Guy Debord‘s seminal book, The Society of the Spectacle.

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Posted: February 12th, 2003
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Weapons: Session 5: Uprising

Weapons: Uprising

Uprising is currently in production.

Posted: February 12th, 2003
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