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ANGUS REID takes issue with Adam Curtis's documentary series Can’t Get you out of my Head
Can’t Get you out of my Head
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AMUSING, disturbing and immersive, Adam Curtis’s eight-hour documentary epic Can’t Get you out of my Head, currently on BBC iPlayer, is a tour de force.
A magpie in the archive, stealing what he can to feather his nest, Curtis tops and tails this extravagant survey of the last 100 years with a quotation from US anthropologist David Graeber, who died last September.
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This plundering of the archive tells us little about reality, and more about the class bias of the BBC, muses DENNIS BROE