Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The toxic reigns of resentment / Bullfrog Films presents ; Gander Yonder Pictures presents ; a Being in the World and Frontaal Film co-production ; directed and produced by Juergen Schaflechner, Tim van den Hoff.

Publisher, Date:

Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, [2019]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

"The revival of nationalism paired with xenophobia, an increasing tribalization of politics, and a public sphere oscillatng between cruelty and sentimentalty mark significant parts of our current political zeitgeist. Politicians, scholars and journalists alike speak of a culture of resentment that defines politics today. How did we enter such a toxic climate? Are these developments a response to the ubiquity of neoliberal market structures eroding the basic solidarities in our society? Has the spread of social media triggered a culture of trolling and hypermoralization? And has the left given in to forms of politics where moralization and cynical mockery outdo collective visions of the future? This documentary film introduces and critically discusses concepts of resentment and their relation to our current political juncture"--Container

Target Audience Note:

Grades 10-12, college, adults.

Subjects:

History, Modern -- 21st century.

Resentment.

Neoliberalism.

Nationalism.

Xenophobia.

Social media.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.