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The overspent American : why we want what we don't need / Media Education Foundation presents ; produced by Kelly Garner.
LIBRA DVD 002 370
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Consumer behavior--United States.
- Consumer behavior.
- Americans.
- Finance, Personal.
- Credit.
- United States.
- Consumption (Economics)--United States.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Credit--United States.
- Debt--United States.
- Debt.
- Americans--Finance, Personal.
- Lifestyles--United States.
- Lifestyles.
- Saving and investment--United States.
- Saving and investment.
- Values--United States.
- Values.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (37 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Why we want what we don't need
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2003]
- Language Note:
- In English with optional English and Spanish subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- A documentary that explains the cultural forces behind Americans overspending in order to demonstrate material success.
- Contents:
- The cycle of work and spend
- Stretching reference groups
- The visible lifestyle
- The costs of overspending
- Getting off the consumer escalator
- Downshifting
- Kid spending
- Lipstick
- SUV advertising.
- Participant:
- Juliet Schor.
- Credits:
- Executive producers, Sut Jhally, Loretta Alper ; producer, editor, camera, Kelly Garner
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the 2003 documentary film.
- ISBN:
- 1893521915
- 9781893521919
- OCLC:
- 54449897
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