Manufacturing Dissent (2007)

Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore is a 2007 documentary film. It asserts that filmmaker Michael Moore has used misleading tactics, primarily using on-camera statements by interviewees with personal grievances against Moore as proof. The documentary attempts to expose what the creators say are Moore's misleading tactics and mimics Moore's style of small documentary makers seeking and badgering their target for an interview to receive answers to their charges. The film was made over the course of two years by Canadians Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine after they viewed Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore's controversial film that attacked the Bush administration and its policies. Melnyk and Caine have stated that when they first sought to make a film about Moore, they held great admiration for what he had done for the documentary genre and set out to make a biography of him. During the course of their research, they became disenchanted with Moore's tactics. The title is a parody of the book Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, and the film it inspired. In June 2007, Liberation Entertainment Inc. signed an exclusive deal with the filmmakers for all video and theatrical rights in the US & UK.

Synopsis

Si le fond des combats de Michael Moore semble légitime, ses méthodes de travail ne le sont pas toujours. Remontant jusqu'aux débuts de la carrière du très médiatique réalisateur de "Fahrenheit 9/11", "Bowling for Columbine" et "Sicko", ce documentaire livre un éclairage édifiant sur les méthodes de Moore pour rendre ses documentaires toujours plus efficaces : se mettre lui-même en scène, pratiquer des raccourcis commodes, sortir une interview de son contexte, biaiser... Il use ainsi, lui aussi, d'un arsenal discutable pour servir autant son propos que ses intérêts : avec ce documentaire, c'est l'arroseurs arrosé !

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