Title Abloni : l'export de la surconsommation / un film de Alexandre Oktan ; réalisation, Alexandre Oktan ; scénaristes, Lara Fitzgerald, Alexandre Oktan ; produit avec le participation du Fonds canadien de télévision ; produit avec la collaboration de Tele-Quebec, TVOntario ; produit par Mediatique Inc

Published Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (1 streaming video (52 min.)) Series Ethnographic video online Summary "Abloni reveals how the second-hand clothes business creates a livelihood for a whole chain of wholesalers and retailers; how it supports charities and recycles waste products in rich countries; how it destroys the textile industries and traditions in poor countries; how it revolutionizes style and fashion in places as far away as a small village in central Togo; how wearing the simplest bit of clothing--like a second-hand shirt from Canada-- becomes, in an African village, a political, economic, and cultural "statement"; and how it has led, too, to the birth of a new hybrid African style, creatively mixing western fashions and local textiles and patterns"--Container Event Originally produced: 2005 Notes French subtitled in English, and English Print version record Subject Used clothing industry. Clothing trade. Fashion -- Africa, Sub-Saharan Television programs -- Canada Clothing trade. Fashion. Television programs. Used clothing industry. Sub-Saharan Africa. Canada. Genre/Form Documentary films. Ethnographic films. Nonfiction films. Documentary films. Ethnographic films. Nonfiction films. Documentaires. Films ethnographiques. Films autres que de fiction. Form Streaming video Author Oktan, Alexandre Fitzgerald, Lara Caswell, Mark Rixas Canadian Television Fund Télé-Québec. TVOntario. Mediatique, Inc Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)

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