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Adam CurtisAdam Curtis is a British television documentary producer. He currently works for BBC Current Affairs. The Guardian wrote: - Curtis is perhaps the most acclaimed maker of serious television programmes in Britain. His trademarks are long research, the revelatory use of archive footage, telling interviews, and smooth, insistent voiceovers concerned with the unnoticed deeper currents of recent history, narrated by Curtis himself in tones that combine traditional BBC authority with something more modern and sceptical: "I want to try to make people look at things they think they know about in a new way." http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1327904,00.html
Curtis's intensive use of archive footage is a distinctive touch of his. An Observer profile notes: - Curtis has a remarkable feel for the serendipity of such moments, and an obsessive skill in locating them. 'That kind of footage shows just how dull I can be,' he admits, a little glumly. 'The BBC has an archive of all these tapes where they have just dumped all the news items they have ever shown. One tape for every three months. So what you get is this odd collage, an accidental treasure trove. You sit in a darkened room, watch all these little news moments, and look for connections.'
The Observer adds "if there has been a theme in Curtis's work since, it has been to look at how different elites have tried to impose an ideology on their times, and the tragi-comic consequences of those attempts." History Curtis previously taught politics at Oxford University but left for a career in television. He got a job on the show That's Life where he learned to find humor in serious subjects. He went on to make documentaries on more serious subjects but retained his playful tone. Works 1992: Pandora's Box examined the apocalyptic political fallout of nuclear science. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series. http://print.google.com/print/doc?articleid=93LUFMjZ7HC 1995: The Living Dead argued that fighting World War II was a mistake and questioned how history is written. 1999: The Mayfair Set looked at how buccaneer capitalists were allowed to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, focusing on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, James Goldsmith, and Tiny Rowland, all members of The Claremont club in the 1960s. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series or Strand in 2000. http://www.bafta.org/television/archive_2000.htm 2002: The Century Of The Self (BBC Four) documented the rise of Freud's individualism led to Edward Bernays's consumerism. It received the Broadcast Award for Best Documentary Series and the Longman-History Today Award for Historical Film of the Year. 2004: The Power of Nightmares (BBC Two) drew parallels between the rise of Islamic terrorists and the US neoconservatives who exploited the terror they created. External links Century of the Self: Curtis, Adam Curtis, Adam
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