Yahoo Web Search

  1. Videocracy
    2009 · Documentary · 1h 25m

Search results

  1. Videocracy is a 2009 documentary film directed by Swedish-Italian Erik Gandini about Italian television and its impact on Italian culture and politics, and about Silvio Berlusconi 's powerful position on all of these. Gandini coined the phrase "The Evilness of Banality" to describe the cultural phenomenon of Berlusconism, thus making a word ...

  2. Aug 28, 2009 · Videocracy: Directed by Erik Gandini. With Silvio Berlusconi, Flavio Briatore, Fabio Calvi, Riccardo Canevali. A look at segments of the Italian population who are consumed with celebrity worship.

    • (1.9K)
    • Documentary
    • Erik Gandini
    • 2009-08-28
  3. Synopsis. In a country where bella figura is a national pastime, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is the maestro of media manipulation. Having risen to political primacy with the aid of his Mediaset empire, he now controls 90% of the bel paese’s television channels including the state-run RAI network. Quantity, it seems, does not equal quality.

    • Erik Gandini
    • 85 min
    • 7
  4. Rated: 3/5 Jul 16, 2010 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian Videocracy is a fascinating film, indicative of the new wave of scorn and revulsion felt by a younger generation of Italians for ...

    • (27)
    • Documentary
    • Erik Gandini
    • Videocracy (film)1
    • Videocracy (film)2
    • Videocracy (film)3
    • Videocracy (film)4
    • Videocracy (film)5
  5. Sep 7, 2009 · Videocracy — Film Review. One of the most popular early titles at the Venice film festival is the aptly titled documentary "Videocracy," a skillful compilation of archive footage describing ...

  6. Mar 25, 2011 · Videocracy | Eric Gandini | Sweden, Denmark, Finland | 2009 | 84' SYNOPSISVideocracy -- the evilness of banality"Videocracy is the power of image over the so...

    • 8 min
    • 4.6K
    • PravoLjudskiFF
  7. People also ask

  8. Feb 9, 2010 · A stylized, scattershot inquiry into Italy’s TV-dominated culture, Videocracy is a portrait of 21st-century media fascism, right down to the country’s renowned small-screen agent Lele Mora espousing his fondness for Mussolini and then playing a clip of the dictator’s hymns on his cellphone, swastika imagery included. Writer-director Erik ...