The persuaders / directed by Barak Goodman and Rachel Dretzin ; produced by Rachel Dretzin, Barak Goodman and Muriel Soenens ; written by Barak Goodman & Douglas Rushkoff ; a Frontline co-production with Ark Media ; WGBH Boston.
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium
polychrome
Description
digital
optical
video file
DVD video
System Details
DVD.
Performer
Correspondent: Douglas Rushkoff.
Credits
Editor, Pamela Scott Arnold ; camera, Stephen McCarthy ; music, Gary Lionelli.
Note
Videodisc release of a production originally broadcast on November 9, 2004 as a segment of Frontline.
"This film is presented in widescreen format ... Enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions"--Container.
Summary
Examines the "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations. Shows how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their message into the fabric of our lives. Explores how the culture of marketing has come to shape the way Americans understand the world and themselves and how the techniques of the persuasion industries have migrated to politics.