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Article: Waking life: an interview with Adam Curtis.(Interview)
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- December 22, 2007
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Adam Curtis is obsessed with history. Among the most distinguished, and inflammatory, contemporary nonfiction television directors, Curtis traded a teaching post at Oxford in the mid-1980s for a job at the BBC producing multipart essays on the hidden assumptions and influential figures of modern capitalism. Pandora's Box (1992) established the found-footage collage style for which he is justly celebrated, a combination of MTV-esque image and sound editing with dense voice-over narrations (spoken by Curtis himself). Pandora, a gonzo meditation on technocratic rationalism, the notion of brainwashing, and corporate abuses of science contains ...
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Article: 5 HUSBANDS AT ONCE FOR LUSTY BABS.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);
March 27, 1997 ;
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... ... than a year. HUSBAND NUMBER FOUR was 33-year-old sailor Adam Curtis. He was trapped in August 1990. Now serving on HMS Invincible ... Wolverhampton Crown Court she admitted being bigamously married to Adam Curtis and Andrew Grice. She pleaded not guilty to bigamy with Vincent ...
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