Philadelphia Premiere

Mark Crispin Miller's A PATRIOT ACT

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Q&A with the STAR of the FILM AFTER THE SCREENING.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2004

at the TROCADERO THEATER, 1003 Arch Street

7:00 PM

"..politics exists on three levels – what you see, what you don't see, and what the Bush Cartel wants you to see -- Mark Miller is the expert spelunker (cave explorer) who takes you on an expedition into the dark underside of what you see." - BUZZFLASH.COM

"this new movie version is terrific!"- ARIANNA HUFFINGTON

MARK CRISPIN MILLER returns to Philadelphia for the area premiere of “Patriot Nation.” The film is an adaptation of Miller’s “Patriot Act: A Public Meditation” originally presented by the New York Theatre Workshop. is a bold, funny and ultimately chilling film that uses news clips, historical documents and other factually verifiable sources to reveal the threats our Constitution is facing under the Bush administration. The film features Mark Crispin Miller, renowned media critic, author of “The Bush Dyslexicon” and the newly released “Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney’s New World Order.”

A Patriot Act is a Lilibet Foster & Good Films production. Producer/Director Lilibet Foster is an Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker based in New York City.

"Patriot Nation" with a live appearance by Mark Crispin Miller will screen at THE TROCADERO (1003 Arch Street): Tuesday, October 19, at 7:00 PM. Admission is $6.00 for the general public. $3.00 for students and seniors. For information call the Trocadero Box Office at 215-922-LIVE.

To arrange press interviews, contact: Earl Dax: 267-968-3247 earl@directfromnyc.com

MARK CRISPIN MILLER

Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media studies at New York University, where he also directs the Project on Media Ownership. His writings on film, television, advertising and rock music have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Nationand The New York Times.In 1988, he published his first book, Boxed In: The Culture of TV,followed by Seeing Through Movies,a collection which he edited for Pantheon Books in 1990. Books he is currently working on include Mad Scientists,a study of propaganda practices in the United States, and Spectacle: Operation Desert Storm and the Triumph of Illusion.

Through the Project on Media Ownership (PROMO) at New York University, Miller has worked to focus public attention on the growing problem of excessive concentration in the U.S. culture industries. Through several special issues of The Nation,among other ventures, PROMO has thus far helped inform the nation of the oligopolistic sway of just a few giant players over television news, book publishing, popular music and cable TV.

Miller earned his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1971 and earned his doctorate in English from Johns Hopkins University in 1977. Although he specialized in Renaissance literature, Miller is best known as a media critic. Before joining New York University, Miller served as director of film studies at Johns Hopkins University for a number of years.