{"id":33218,"date":"2004-09-28T13:35:37","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T17:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=33218"},"modified":"2015-06-26T11:19:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T15:19:21","slug":"affluenza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/09\/28\/affluenza\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates to show influential documentary &#039;Affluenza&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates College Program in Environmental Studies will show <em>Affluenza, <\/em>the acclaimed 1997 documentary about the impact of rampant  materialism in America, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Room 104, Olin  Arts Center, 75 Russell St. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Written and co-produced by John de Graaf, <em>Affluenza<\/em> is the first in  a documentary film series at Bates about environmental issues. The  screenings are open to the public at no charge. For more information,  call 207-786-6464.<\/p>\n<p>All scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Olin 104, the other films in the  series are: <em>Wilderness and Spirit: A Mountain Called Katahdin,<\/em> by  Portland filmmaker Huey (Nov. 9); <em>Jane Goodall: Chimps in Crisis,<\/em> a  National Geographic film by David Hamlin (Nov. 16); and<em> Blue Vinyl,<\/em> by  New York City filmmaker Judith Helfand (Nov. 30). Finally,  documentaries by students in the course will be shown on Dec. 7.<\/p>\n<p>The series is held in conjunction with the course <em>Environmental  Filmmaking in Theory and Practice<\/em>, taught by Melissa Paly. Paly is a  documentary filmmaker whose work has been broadcast on PBS and cable  television, and has won awards at film festivals in this country and  abroad. Shown at Bates last year, her video <em>Livable Landscapes: By  Chance or by Choice? <\/em>documents how five northern New England  communities, including Scarborough, have responded to development.<\/p>\n<p>Combining personal stories, vintage film clips and expert commentary, <em>Affluenza<\/em> uses a disease metaphor to examine American materialism \u2014  which, according to distributor Bullfrog Films, &#8220;is having a devastating  impact on our families, communities and the environment.&#8221; The film was  produced by de Graaf and Vivia Boe and is hosted by public radio&#8217;s Scott  Simon.<\/p>\n<p>John de Graaf has been producing PBS documentaries for 27 years. He  was co-producer, writer and editor of the popular <em>Affluenza<\/em> specials  and more than a dozen other national prime-time specials. He has  received more than 100 awards for filmmaking and is the co-author of the  book <em>Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic<\/em> (Berrett-Koehler  Publishing, 2001).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates College Program in Environmental Studies will show &#8220;Affluenza,&#8221; the acclaimed 1997 documentary about the impact of rampant materialism in America, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Room 104, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[195,224],"tags":[10760,3529],"class_list":["post-33218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics","category-society-culture","tag-environmental-studies","tag-film-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82905,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33218\/revisions\/82905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}