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  • 2011
  • TV-G
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2011
  • TV-G
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary Media, politics and pop-culture. PROGRAMMING THE NATION? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late 1950s subliminal content has been tested and delivered through all forms of mass-media including Hollywood filmmakers Alfred Hitchcock and William Friedkin. E...

Directed By: Jeff Warrick

Written By: Jeff Warrick

  • 2011
  • TV-G
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2011
  • TV-G
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 45 m

Programming the Nation?

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Summary Media, politics and pop-culture. PROGRAMMING THE NATION? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late 1950s subliminal content has been tested and delivered through all forms of mass-media including Hollywood filmmakers Alfred Hitchcock and William Friedkin. E...

Directed By: Jeff Warrick

Written By: Jeff Warrick

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70
Sep 22, 2011
Warrick finds subliminal messaging in political campaigns, military operations and even in the music played in big box stores. Warrick is also rightly concerned by the power of media conglomerates to manipulate the news.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 19, 2011
This thought-provoking but overlong doc wins points for being all-inclusive.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 27, 2011
Besides the fact that the film is flabby (way too much time is spent on history), its efforts to tie subliminal messaging to a vast array of political, media and pop cultural events turn the proceedings a little hazy (or a lot hazy, depending on your worldview).
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Aug 15, 2011
A pseudo-investigative documentary shakily committed to the subject of subliminal messaging in America, but curiously indulgent about giving the singer of Queensryche time to spout off about whatever enters his head.
By Bill Weber FULL REVIEW
30
Aug 17, 2011
The results are irritating, occasionally educational, and frustratingly insight-free.
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Aug 19, 2011
Fusty research, aging interviewees and decades-old advertising campaigns offer background to the uninitiated, but Mr. Warrick's muddled, undisciplined approach destroys even the possibility of a cogent overview.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
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Aug 16, 2011
This haphazard "exposé" only proves that hackery plus hot air [time] does not equal skillful muckraking.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Digital Media Factory, Ignite Productions
Release Date Aug 19, 2011
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating TV-G
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Tagline Are we all brainwashed? Or, have we lost our minds? The History of Subliminal Messaging in America
Website http://www.programmingthenation.com/
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