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Park Avenue Money, Power, and the American Dream
Title
Park Avenue [electronic resource] : Money, Power, and the American Dream / DR TV (Television station : Copenhagen, Denmark).
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2013], c2012.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (63 min.) : sd., col. + instructional materials (online)
Local Notes
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Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on October 18, 2013.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
Number 740 Park Avenue is home to several New York billionaires. Just ten minutes north, in the South Bronx, is another Park Avenue, where more than half the population rely on government food stamps to survive. According to the American dream, any Bronx Park Avenue resident can end up living at 740 with enough willpower and hard work. But is that dream still attainable? In this program, director Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) argues that the gap between rich and poor in the U.S. has widened significantly and will continue to do so as the rich use their wealth to fund political campaigns and lobby groups that rig the system in their favor.
Variant and related titles
Money, Power, and the American Dream
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Originally produced: DR TV (Television station : Copenhagen, Denmark), 2012.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
Why Poverty?
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Contents
Two Park Avenues (2:35)
Modeling Financial Inequity with Monopoly (3:13)
Low Upward Mobility (2:04)
Chasm in Income Distribution (1:44)
Concentration of Billionaires at 740 Park Ave. (2:02)
Residents of 740 Park Ave. (2:55)
"Winner-Take-All Politics" (0:54)
Corrupt Lobbyists & Politicians. (2:21)
Raising Campaign Funds at 740 Park Ave. (1:59)
Tax Advantages for the Rich (3:02)
Koch Brothers (3:07)
Koch Brothers & Tea Party (1:57)
Ayn Rand Ideology in the Tea Party (3:16)
Paul Ryan's Budget Plan (3:48)
Education, Employment, & Class Mobility (2:09)
Paul Ryan's Campaign Against Food Stamps (2:25)
Impact of Bush Tax Cuts (2:27)
Overpaying America's CEOs (2:34)
Skewed Capitalist Morality (1:24)
Entitlement & "Class Warfare" (2:29)
Scott Walker's Anti-Union Politics (3:40)
Scott Walker's Recall & National Agenda (2:53)
Relationship Between Rich & Poor in the U.S. (3:10)
Credits: Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream-Why Poverty? (0:41)
Blank Screen (0:56)
Bonus Segment: "Textless Elements" (11:23)
Short Film: "New Poor" (5:25)
Credits: "New Poor" (0:15)
Short Film: "Holiday from Poverty" (5:34)
Credits: "Holiday from Poverty" (0:21)
Short Film: "The Car's Got to Go" (5:28)
Credits: "The Car's Got to Go" (0:19)
Short Film: "The Crisis and the Sunglasses" (4:34)
Credits: "The Crisis and the Sunglasses" (0:14)
Short Film: "Lullaby" (2:27)
Credits: "Lullaby" (0:15)
Videorecording number
55235s Infobase
55239 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
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DR TV (Television station : Copenhagen, Denmark).
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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