1982 | United States | Experimental

Joan Braderman Reads the National Enquirer

  • English 28 mins
  • Director | Joan Braderman
  • Writer | Joan Braderman
  • Producer | Joan Braderman

STATUS: Released

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Award winning documentary filmmaker and cultural critic Joan Braderman takes a look at the National Enquirer and demolishes the newspaper's ideology and content. Analyzing the fact that the Enquirer is the tabloid that everybody reads but nobody admits to. Braderman shows how it's agenda of reporting gossip and the lowest common denominator of news has influenced even the so called intellectual progressive media such as the "New Yorker" and the "New York Times". Braderman has recently finished her documentary The Heretics about a seventies feminist art group based in NYC.

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