Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, 124 min.) : sound, color |
Contents |
Introduction -- Part 1. Bud or Bordeaux?: The choices you make reveal your class ; Joe Queenan's balsamic vinegar tour ; The trouble with tofu ; How to marry the rich -- Part 2. High and low: A tour through the landscape of class ; WASP lessons ; Bourgeois blues ; Tammy's story -- Part 3. Salt of the Earth: Blue collar life in a white collar world ; Gnomes R Us ; Friends in low places ; Don't get above your raisin' -- Part 4. Belonging: Understanding the rules of the game ; All you need is cash ; Most likely to succeed -- Conclusion -- Credits |
Summary |
How do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class? In travels across the U.S. in interviews with people from diverse socioeconomic groups, this film examines how social class in America has as much influence as race or ethnicity in determining what kind of opportunities a person has in life. Discusses how social class plays a role in the lives of all Americans, whether they live in Park Avenue penthouses, Appalachian trailer parks, bayou houseboats, or suburban gated communities, and presents stories of family traditions, class mobility, and different lifestyle choices. The final segment uses Anderson High School in Austin, Texas as a microcosmic example of the social segmentation that extends throughout the macro level |
Notes |
Originally produced in 1999 |
Credits |
Co-produced and edited by Peter Odabashian ; camera, Stephen McCarthy, Jefferson Miller, and others |
Performer |
Narrator, Rudy Cheeks; commentators include R. Couri Hay, David Patrick Columbia, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joe Queenan, Dan Rodricks, Levi Sanders, Tom Smith, David Brooks, Bill Bear, Kenyatta Birges, Ginie Polo Sayles, Vessa Rinehart, Paul Fussell, Carlotta Miles, Michael Monte, Thomas Langhorne Phipps, Eleanor Weller, Benilde Little, Debbie Gibbs, Wayne Brown, Lawrence Otis Graham, Barbara Brannen, Valerie Lancaster Beal, "L-Bow" Tidwell, Stanley Crouch, Matt Heid, Tammy Crabtree, Dan Rodricks, Pat Gulden, John DiIulio, Bryon Smith, Kelly Conway, Tex Andrews, Marilyn Knisley, Kelley Hammers, Andrew Porter, Michael Birdwell, Steven Gaines, Curtis Powell, Dave Williams |
Notes |
English language soundtrack with optional English closed-captions |
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Description based on DVD version; title from title screen (viewed September 23, 2015) |
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Anderson High School (Austin, Tex.)
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SUBJECT |
Anderson High School (Austin, Tex.) fast (OCoLC)fst00635456 |
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Social classes -- United States
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Social classes -- Case studies
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Social mobility -- Case studies
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Social stratification -- Case studies
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Class consciousness -- Case studies
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Upper class -- Social conditions
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Middle class.
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Working class -- Social conditions
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Class consciousness.
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Manners and customs.
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Middle class.
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Social classes.
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Social conditions.
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Social mobility.
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Social stratification.
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Upper class -- Social conditions.
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Working class -- Social conditions.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140524
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140543
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Austin (Tex.) -- Social life and customs
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Texas -- Austin.
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United States.
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Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Documentary television programs.
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Internet videos.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentary television programs.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Internet videos.
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Television programs
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Documentaires télévisés.
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Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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Streaming video
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Author |
Alvarez, Louis, film producer, film director.
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Kolker, Andrew, film producer, film director.
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Cheeks, Rudy, narrator.
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WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.), presenter.
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Independent Television Service, presenter
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Center for New American Media, production company, publisher.
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