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The Price of Everything examines the role of art in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society. Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers and a rich range of artists, from current market darlings Jeff...
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...
Media scholar Sut Jhally takes the viewer through the history of advertising, from the emergence of the industry in the early 20th century to the full-scale commercialization of culture in the digital age....
What do popular television makeover programmes tell us about about what a good life looks like in contemporary America? Based on Katherine Sender’s book The Makeover the film examines this question against...
Consumerism pervades American culture, it dominates all aspects of American life, including the work of the country’s artists. CONSUMPTION explores how artists respond to the pervasiveness of consumerism...
This 20-minute online film takes a provocative look at our consumer-driven culture from resource extraction to iPod incineration exposing the real costs of this use-it and lose-it approach to material...
An illustrated presentation by Sut Jhally of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, he asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating...
Teenagers discuss what it takes to be ‘cool’, the pressures of consumerism, and the impact on the environment. The video begins with a look at global population growth and the impact of consumption...
From the 1890s until the 1920s and 30s, early advertising frequently used images of industrial work to sell its products, showing in detail the actual manufacture of goods advertised. Modern advertising, on...
A collection of anti-consumerist subvertisments and uncommercials
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