For today’s double feature topic, we’re discussing the idea of media representation in film, how mass media in the form of television or other sources has been depicted in film as a way to configure and shape reality for entertainment and profit. The first film that we selected in this pairing is Sidney Lumet’s 1976, Network, and you voted to pair Peter Weir’s The Truman Show from 1998 for two prescient films examining the role of media, and specifically television media, in society.

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