Big Brother
Encyclopedia
Big Brother may refer to:
- Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four), a character from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Authoritarian personalityAuthoritarian personality-Historical Origins:Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswick, Levinson and Sanford compiled a large body of research and theory , which attempted to characterize a personality type that described the “potentially fascistic individual”...
, any omnipresent figure representing oppressive control - Big Brother AwardsBig Brother AwardsThe Big Brother Awards recognize "the government and private sector organizations ... which have done the most to threaten personal privacy".They are named after the George Orwell character Big Brother from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.-Countries:...
, a satirical award for acts against personal privacy
- Authoritarian personality
In television
- Big Brother (TV series)Big Brother (TV series)Big Brother is a television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash...
, a reality-television series with many national versions (see See also section below) - "Big Brother" (CSI: Miami), an episode of CSI: Miami
- "Big Brother" (Only Fools and Horses)Big Brother (Only Fools and Horses)"Big Brother" is the pilot episode of the BBC sit-com, Only Fools and Horses. It was the pilot episode of the entire series, and the first episode of series 1, and was first screened on 8 September, 1981.-Synopsis:...
, an episode of Only Fools and Horses - "Big Brother" (Yes Minister)Big Brother (Yes Minister)"Big Brother" is the fourth episode of the BBC comedy series Yes Minister and was first broadcast 17 March 1980.-Plot:Jim Hacker is being interviewed by Robert McKenzie for the TV current affairs programme Topic...
, an episode of Yes Minister - "Big Brother", an episode of The Andy Griffith Show
- "Big Brother", an episode of Are You Being Served?
In music
- "Big Brother" (David Bowie song)
- "Big Brother" (Kanye West song)Big Brother (Kanye West song)"Big Brother" is a song by American hip hop artist Kanye West.-Writing and inspiration:"Big Brother" was written by Kanye West while the music was produced by Atlanta producer DJ Toomp. It stands as the sole track on the entire third album not to feature production by West...
- Big Brother and the Holding CompanyBig Brother and the Holding CompanyBig Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane. They are best known as the band that featured Janis Joplin as their...
, an American band- Big Brother & the Holding Company (album)Big Brother & the Holding Company (Album)Big Brother & the Holding Company is the debut album from Big Brother and the Holding Company and the studio debut of Janis Joplin. The album was originally released in the summer of 1967, following the band's major success at the Monterey Pop Festival. The album was a minor success, peaking at #60...
, a 1967 album by the band of the same name
- Big Brother & the Holding Company (album)
- Big Brother RecordingsBig Brother RecordingsBig Brother Recordings Ltd. is a record label set up in 2000 to release material by rock band Oasis in the UK and Ireland through independent distributor [PIAS] UK . On June 19, 2008 a deal was signed with Sony BMG which entitled them to an arranged portion of the profits from the next three Oasis...
, a UK record label - "Big Brother", a song by Morten Abel
- "Big Brother", a song by Reset from No LimitsNo Limits (Reset album)No Limits is the second album by the Canadian punk band Reset. It was released in 1999, and re-released in 2006.-Track listing:# "I Know" # "Pollution" # "Planet Earth" # "My Dream and I" # "Let Me Go"...
- "Big Brother", a song by Stevie Wonder from Talking BookTalking BookTalking Book is the fifteenth album by Stevie Wonder, released on October 28, 1972. A signal recording of his "classic period", in this one he "hit his stride"...
In other media
- Big Brother (film)Big Brother (film)Big Brother is a 2007 Bollywood film which starred Sunny Deol and Priyanka Chopra in the lead roles.-Plot:Big Brother is a story set in modern India which revolves around a small middle class family composed of Dev Sharma Sunny Deol, his wife Aarti Priyanka Chopra, his mother Farida Jalal, brother...
, a 2007 Bollywood film - Big Brother (magazine)Big Brother (magazine)Big Brother was a skateboarding magazine founded by Steve Rocco, which was notable for ushering in street skating and the sub-culture of skateboarding....
, a skateboarding culture magazine - Big Brother (software)Big Brother (software)Big Brother is a tool for systems and network monitoring, generally used by system administrators. The advent of the dynamic web page allowed Big Brother to be one of the first monitoring systems to use the web as its exclusive interface. Prior to this, monitoring tools were generally console...
, a tool for systems and network monitoring - Big Brother (1990 film), a Hong Kong film of 1990Hong Kong films of 1990A list of films produced in Hong Kong in 1990:.-1990:-External links:* * Hong Kong films of 1990 at...
- Big Brother BotBig Brother BotBig Brother Bot, also known as B3, is a bot which helps game administrators to manage their servers. It is written in Python and released under the GNU GPL license....
, a game administration bot - Big Brother WatchBig Brother WatchBig Brother Watch is a libertarian British pressure group founded in 2009 to "fight injustice and campaigns to protect our civil liberties and personal freedoms"...
, a UK pressure group
See also
- Big Brothers Big Sisters (disambiguation)
- "My Big BrotherMy Big BrotherThis article is about the game. For the episode of Scrubs, see My Big Brother My Big Brother is a mobile game that emulates the Big Brother Brasil TV show in a cell phone using Java technology...
", an episode of the TV series Scrubs - Birth orderBirth orderBirth order is defined as a person's rank by age among his or her siblings. Birth order is often believed to have a profound and lasting effect on psychological development...
- International versions of the TV series Big Brother: