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American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Social Class in America
- Year
- 1957
- Abstract
- Shows the differences in the life experience of three male babies from three different social classes. One young man succeeds his father as president of the family manufacturing company. Another, a middle-class white-collar worker at the same company, leaves the town of his birth and moves to New York City where he becomes a respected advertising art director, thus rising in social status. A third, born into the working class, trains as a mechanic and holds an influential job at a service station. The sociological tone of the film does not mask a sobering narrative of the limitations that social class divisions inflict on all Americans.
- Notes
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Produced: Knickerbocker Productions
Sponsor: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.
Run Time: 14:49
Audio/Visual: Sd, b&w - Keyword
- United States;Sociology;Social classes;1950s;Sociology;Social classes;1950s
- Theme
- United States -- Social aspects -- 1957 / Sociology
- Review
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America is a Class Society... but it's rarely talked about. Krugman wrote a piece in the New York Times Magazine (Sept. or Oct. 2002) noting that income inequality is growing again in the U.S., in a big way. We are entering a new guilded age like we had in the early decades of the 1900s. This movie was filmed when our nation enjoyed comparative equality, but you just have to look at CEO compensation to know we're moving further and further away from that.
(Reviewer: NG) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F