Australian Left Review

Article Title

Film... Network

Abstract

For anyone interested in the brand-name differentiation game as carried on among the various ideology merchants, Network will be your cup of myth. This film about the underside of the television industry not only permits that quintessential cultural whore, Hollywood, to come on all holier-than-thou about the evils of the 21- inch screen, but enables the press lords to get in a kick or two as well - witness The Australian’s serialisation of Paddy Chayevsky’s screenplay in February.