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2010 · 57 min

A sober, essayistic documentary that walks you through decades of television footage while experts dissect how entertainment turned cruel.

Directed by
Jean-Robert Viallet
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Bernard Stiegler, Philippe Torreton
Overview
Cruelty, psychological and sexual violence, humiliations: reality television seems to have gone mad. His debut in the early 2000s inaugurated a new era in the history of the audio-visual. Fifty years of archives trace the evolution of entertainment: how the staging of intimacy during the 80s opened new territories, how the privatization of the biggest channels has changed the relationship with the spectator. With the contribution of specialists, including philosopher Bernard Stiegler, this documentary demonstrates how emotion has made way for the exacerbation of the most destructive impulses.

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Directed by
Jean-Robert Viallet
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Bernard Stiegler, Philippe Torreton
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    • power
    • corruption
    • identity
    • class
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    Audience
    adult
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    • true story
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    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Jean-Robert Viallet
    Starring
    Bernard Stiegler, Philippe Torreton
    Runtime
    57 min
    Country
    France
    Languages
    French

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