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Weapons

admin — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:29:23 +0000

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.

Weapons: Session 1: Glamour

admin — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 06:17:38 +0000

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

Weapons: Session 2: Mass

admin — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:47:05 +0000

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

Sound and Vision by Bienvenido Cruz

Weapons: Session 3: Gaze

admin — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 00:18:36 +0000

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

Sound and Vision by Bienvenido Cruz

Weapons: Session 4: Spectacle

admin — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:34:39 +0000

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

Sound and Vision by Bienvenido Cruz

Weapons: Session 5: Uprising

admin — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:47:02 +0000

Uprising is currently in production.