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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

What is democracy? / The National Film Board of Canada presents ; produced by Lea Marin ; written and directed by Astra Taylor.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Zeitgeist Films, [2019]

Description:

1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Director Astra Taylor's idiosyncratic, philosophical journey spans millennia and continents, from ancient Athens's groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism's roots in medieval Italy, from modern-day Greece grappling with financial collapse and a mounting refugee crisis to the United States reckoning with its racist past and the growing gap between rich and poor.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Democracy -- History.

Political science.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Taylor, Astra, film director, screenwriter.

Marin, Lea, film producer.

Kennedy, Robert (Film editor), editor of moving image work.

Bankovic, Maya, director of photography.

McIntosh, Heather (Musician), composer (expression)

Brown, Wendy, 1955- onscreen presenter.

Federici, Silvia, onscreen presenter.

Papandreou, Giōrgos A., 1952- onscreen presenter.

National Film Board of Canada, presenter, production company.

Zeitgeist Films, publisher.

Notes:

Originally produced in 2018.

Wide screen.

Special features: Deleted scenes; Interview with director Astra Taylor on The dig, a poscast from Jacobin Magazine; Q&A with Astra Taylor at The Jacob Burns Film Center, moderated by Brian Ackerman, JBFC Founding Programming Director; trailers.

Editor, Robert Kennedy ; director of photography, Maya Bankovic ; music by Heather McIntosh.

Wendy Brown, Silvia Federici, George A. Papandreou.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, wide screen (1.85:1), Dolby Digital 5.1 or 2.0 stereo.

In English with optional English SDH subtitles.

Web Site:

View cover art

Publisher Number:

K23793

Other Number:

1091058218

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

796385

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD 321.8 What is