Paranoia
Aug 03 2010
•0h 7m
•Documentary
Short film using the paranoia of Richard Nixon to explore how a similar outlook on life has been propagated on a larger social scale in the new media age and the resulting moral panics and immobilisation of politics. Screen during the fourth episode of the second series of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe.
Cast
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Adam Curtis
Director
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