Home economics
Subtitle: a documentary of suburbia
By: Jenny Cool
Contributors: New Day Films; Center for Visual Anthropology
Series: ECO 204 (NU course); PAD 400 (NU course); SOC 100 (NU course)
Publisher: New Day Films
Published: 1994
Place of publication: [Harriman, NY]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: Suburbs; Suburban life; Economic aspects; Social aspects; Social conditions
Description: "As mortgage market 'meltdowns' and the environmental crisis bespeak its wider consequences. The film bursts the bubble of the American Dream of homeownership and reveals the deep human costs of suburbanization and automobilization. In candid interviews, two working mothers and a teenager speak about the social tolls of long daily commutes, racism, crime, the Protestant work ethic, and the meaning of home. Subtly and sensitively, the film explores the relation between our built environment and our daily lives, revealing a sad irony--home ownership is often achieved at the expense of the very values a home is said to represent."--Container.
Notes: Videodisc release of a documentary film originally produced in 1994.

This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Produced at the Center for Visual Anthropology.

DVD-R, NTSC.