Ironweed Film Club No. 27: Mardi Gras: Made in China/No Logo: Brands, Globalization & Resistance/Matamoros: The Human Face of Globalization
March 1, 2011Ironweed Film Club No. 27: Mardi Gras: Made in China/No Logo: Brands, Globalization & Resistance/Matamoros: The Human Face of Globalization
Call Number: IWFC_no 27
by: David Redmon; Naomi Klein; Steve Mills; Ironweed Film Club.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [San Francisco] : Ironweed Film Club, ©2008.
Notes: Issue: February 2008 (126 mins.); Contains 1 Feature Film, 2 Shorts, and DVD Extras.
Summary: Mardi Gras explores the production, consumption, and disposal of Mardi Gras beads. Follows the bead trail backwards from Mardi Gras to the factories where the beads are made….No Logo….sheds light on the phenomenon of corporate branding, the brilliant, insidious advertising technique of selling, not products, but identities and lifestyles. Matamoros [is a] revealing look at the small border town of Matamoros, Mexico, that exposes the environmental and human toll of NAFTA, the ‘free trade’ agreement of the Americas.
Summary: Mardi Gras explores the production, consumption, and disposal of Mardi Gras beads. Follows the bead trail backwards from Mardi Gras to the factories where the beads are made….No Logo….sheds light on the phenomenon of corporate branding, the brilliant, insidious advertising technique of selling, not products, but identities and lifestyles. Matamoros [is a] revealing look at the small border town of Matamoros, Mexico, that exposes the environmental and human toll of NAFTA, the ‘free trade’ agreement of the Americas.
OCLC #: 192097996
Added: March 1, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
