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The Cropping of the Spectacle

2010 · 25m · Documentary

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Overview

In this live cinema essay, Ross Lipman investigates the birth of the Television Spectacle. Based loosely on the classic anarchist documentary POINT OF ORDER! (a film which at once deconstructed the hearings and re-invented documentary form), the performance integrates archival movie and audio clips in chronicling the strange evolution of our understanding of McCarthy's America. The original film and its many revisions ultimately reveal an odd continuation of a hegemonic framing process begun with the original Army hearings which continues to the present day.

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Release date
January 1, 2010
Status
Released
Original language
English
Runtime
25m
Genres
Documentary

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