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Film: Documentary
Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger Television

When

Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (7:30pm)

Where
Pacific Film Archive Theater (2575 Bancroft Wy, 510.642.0808)
Price
$9.50
Details
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN16795
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When the rabble-rousing Paper Tiger Television began its crusade of savvy, critical programming in 1981, FOX News was just a glimmer in Rupert Murdoch's eye. More than 25 years later, the organization's emphasis on media literacy seems prescient and in increasingly embattled territory, given the hyper-consumptive state of the American cultural scene. Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger Television documents the collective's open-source tactics, and includes playful blasts of animation, political theatre, video art, and uncut commentary from lefty luminaries like Howard Zinn.

Max Goldberg