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The Truman Show
Title: The Truman Show
Category: Entertainment / Movies & Film
Details: Words: 913 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Truman Show
A critical appraisal of
The Truman Show
Director: Peter Weir
1998 Paramount Pictures
Duration: 103 minutes
Actors: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris
The movie is based on a TV series called “The Truman Show” that shows us an entire human life captured on camera. The show has almost two billion viewers hooked on the life of Truman Burbanks (Jim Carrey) and his everyday intrigues. What makes the show so interesting to watch is that Truman does not know …showed first 75 words of 913 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 913 total…crying from real events on national TV. This raises interesting questions regarding the supposedly effect “The Truman Show” has on its viewers. The question is; Does the general public really care?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
· David Molouf, “Growing up with the stars”. Sydney Morning Herald article (1999)
· Debord quote; BoER (1999) p. 2
· O’Shaughnessy Media & Society, Chapter 3 p. 24.
· O’Shaughnessy Media & Society, Media-world model Chapter 3 p. 30.
· O’Shaughnessy Media & Society, Understanding media-audience relationship Chapter 6 p. 58.
· Peter Weir, “The Truman Show” (1998)
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