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Title The American savannah / directed by Jean-Francois Mean and Ian Lagarde ; produced by Peter Haynes and Ian Boyd
Published Montreal, QC : CinéFête, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (52 min.)
Series Ethnographic video online, volume 2
Summary Lawns are us ... We came down from the trees and set foot on grassy savannahs. And we're still on them! Lawns are life, they're parks, gardens, cemeteries, golf courses, sports' fields. They're places to lie on, to play on, to sleep on, to picnic on. They're the smell of mown grass at twilight. But they do have a dark side! Every year, lawns drink twice as much water as the average family. Every year, American lawns absorb seventy million pounds of pesticides, endangering the lives of the kids playing on them and the adults living around them. Lawns are us because lawns are passion and folly, freedom and constraint, beauty and poison, life and death. Lawns are contradictions. Like us. With sympathy and skepticism, wit and a probing eye, AMERICAN SAVANNAH examines that fascinating human foible, the lawn, casting a satirical glance on the obsession it has become
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014)
This edition in English
Subject Lawns -- United States
Lawns -- Social aspects -- United States
Lawns.
United States.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Lagarde, Ian, film director.
Méan, Jean-François, film director.
Haynes, Peter, film producer.
Boyd, Ian (Film producer), film producer.
Ciné Fête, production company.