Canners.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

VAST: academic video online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Waste (Economics).

Slums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (77 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Grasshopper Film, [date of publication not identified]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Manfred Kirchheimer's deeply humane Canners takes to the streets in an ode to the men and women who earn their daily bread by diligently collecting New York City's bottles and cans. He talks to them about their struggles, their families, and their dreams, never straying too far from his work's abiding subject, survival in the city. This lyrical documentary, along with his award-winning previous films (Stations of the Elevated (1981), We Were So Beloved (1985), Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan (2004), among many others) makes a superb addition to a body of work fifty years in the making, defined by Whitmanesque generosity and grandeur.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed December 11, 2022).

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