Generation Wealth

Synopsis: A visual history of growing obsession with wealth. Weaving two and a half decades of work into an epic narrative, Greenfield has created a revelatory cultural documentation of wealth for viewers to explore through a retrospective film, book and exhibition.
Through first-person interviews, Greenfield’s journey starts in Los Angeles and spreads across America and beyond, as she documents how the USA export the values of materialism, celebrity culture, and social status to every corner of the globe: from Los Angeles to Moscow, Dubai to China. The film follows the stories of students, single parents, and families overwhelmed by crushing debt, yet determined to purchase luxury houses, cars, and clothing; it visits the homes and observes the rituals of the international elitefrom Bel-Air to Monaco, Russia to China; it gains access into the lives of those that rose to extraordinary wealth and then lost "big" during the global economic crash of 2008; also, it encounters the A-list celebrities, who are on reality TV and social media, the same influencers who shape our consumer desires and sense of self.

Special features:
-Q&A with director Lauren Greenfield
-Deleted Scenes
-Theatrical Trailer
Language: English (United States)
Country: United States
Year of release: 2018
Subjects: American Studies
Keywords: consumerism; film essay; wealth

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