Mardi Gras
Subtitle: made in China
By: the Calle y Media collective presents a Carnivalesque production ; directed, produced and edited by David Redmon
Contributors: Calle y Media (Firm); Carnivalesque Films (Firm)
Series: SOC 100 (NU course)
Publisher: Calle y Media
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Brooklyn, NY]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Manufacturing industries; Working class; Commercial products; Carnival; Documentary films; Economic conditions
Other titles: Made in China
Description: A documentary that explores the production, consumption, and disposal of Mardi Gras beads. Filmed on location in Fuzhou, China and New Orleans, Louisiana, the film follows "The Bead Trail" backwards from the bacchanalia at Mardi Gras to the factories in Fuzhou where the beads are made. When each group is shown images of the other, the cycle of misunderstanding goes a long way in explaining how the commodity chain is kept in place.
Notes: Disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players and drives.

Editor, Suki Hawley ; music, Matthew Dougherty

DVD-R.

Some dialogues in Mandarin with English subtitles.