Category: ‘Politics’
The Century of the Self – BBC Documentary (by Adam Curtis)
Adam Curtis does not shy away from controversial subject matters in his documentaries, nor does he hold back from taking a particular point of view, eschewing the idea of a neutral narrator. In his 2002, 4 part documentary series 'The Century of the Self' he explores the influence of public relations techniques developed by Edward Bernay's in the 1920's (which, in turn were influenced by his uncle Sigmund Freud) - in particular, their relationship to the evolving conception of the individual self in the twentieth century.
