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Shop 'til you drop : the crisis of consumerism / Well Crafted Films ; a Media Education Foundation release ; produced and directed by Gene Brockhoff.
LIBRA DVD 015 554
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumption (Economics)--United States.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Advertising--Social aspects.
- Materialism--Social aspects.
- Materialism.
- United States.
- Materialism--Social aspects--United States.
- Consumer behavior--United States.
- Consumer behavior.
- Advertising--Social aspects--United States.
- Advertising.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Shop until you drop
- Crisis of consumerism
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2010]
- Language Note:
- Optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "Are we too materialistic? Are we willfully trashing the planet in our pursuit of things? And what's the source of all this frenetic consumer energy and desire anyway? In a fast-paced tour of the ecological and psychological terrain of American consumer culture, Shop 'Til You Drop challenges us to confront these questions head-on. Taking aim at the high-stress, high-octane pace of fast-lane materialism, the film moves beneath the seductive surfaces of the commercial world to show how the flip side of accumulation is depletion -- the slow, steady erosion of both natural resources and basic human values. In the end, Shop 'Til You Drop helps us make sense of the economic turbulence of the moment, providing an unflinching, riveting look at the relationship between the limits of consumerism and our never-ending pursuit of happiness"--Container.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Alex Peterson ; commentators, Peter Whybrow, Juliet B. Schor, Cecile Andrews, Duane Elgin, Chris Jordan, James B. Twitchell, Julian Darley.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Jeff Deveraux ; original music, Jonah Sharp ; editing, Gene Brockhoff.
- Notes:
- Special features: director's cut (80 min.).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1932869409
- 9781932869408
- OCLC:
- 521099791
- Publisher Number:
- 897952001274
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