| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (38 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time |
003706 |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Peter Sarsgaard |
| Event |
Originally produced by Divided Films in 2016. |
| Summary |
In the 21st century, we have seen the withering of middle-class life in America. Manufacturing, which once held out the promise of a middle-class life for those with a high school education, has shed five million jobs since 2000. Now, as Americans grapple with the growing inequality, something startling is happening to working class white America: an epidemic of suicide and drug and alcohol-related deaths across the heartland. Since 1999, this epidemic has resulted in nearly half a million early deaths — a figure comparable to all the lives lost to AIDS in the US. In “The Epidemic,” Peter Sarsgaard — whose own family has battled with drug addiction — travels to Dayton, Ohio, to investigate how the city, once the very definition of industrial invention and middle-class America, has become the epicenter of an epidemic and a symbol of our age of inequality. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Documentary-style films
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Politics
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Granatstein, Solly, filmmaker
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Read, Lucian, filmmaker
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Rowley, Richard, filmmaker
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Divided Films (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
2319334 Kanopy |
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