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Title Consumerism & the limits to imagination / Featuring Justin Lewis.

Imprint Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, 2014.
Publication Info. [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kanopy Streaming Video  Streaming Video    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (1 video file, 42 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
two-dimensional moving image rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Credits Executive Producer/Director: Sut Jhally ; Producer: Jeremy Earp ; Production Assistants: Sophia Chen, Will Delphia & Sarah Marmon ; Camera: David Rabinovitz ; Location Sound Recordist: Andy Turrett.
Event Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2014.
Summary Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics, and our culture, even though a growing body of research suggests it may be well past its sell-by date. In Consumerism and the Limits to Imagination, media scholar Justin Lewis makes a compelling case that consumer capitalism can no longer deliver on its promise of enhancing quality of life, and argues that changing direction will require changing our media system and our cultural environment. After showing how consumer capitalism has become economically and environmentally unsustainable, Lewis explores how our cultural and information industries make it difficult to envision other forms of human progress by limiting critical thinking and keeping us locked in a cycle of consumption. And he argues that change will only be possible if we take culture seriously and transform the very way we organize our media and communications systems.
Audience Grades 9+
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Material culture -- Social aspects.
Consumers -- Social aspects.
Consumerism.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Added Author Lewis, Justin.
Earp, Jeremy.
Jhally, Sut.
Kanopy (Firm)
In: Media Education Foundation Collection.
Music No. 1131007 Kanopy

 
    
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