RR (film)
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RR is a 2007 American experimental documentary feature by James Benning.
Opening title
Consumerism
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Consumerism is a socio-cultural and economic phenomenon in which the aspirations of many individuals include the acquisition of goods and services beyond those necessary for survival or traditional di
RR (film)
…series of American experimental landscape films; this one focusing on trains and their surroundings. In Railroad, Benning explores themes of American consumerism and overconsumption in what Benning calls a "collaboration" with the trains themselves. The film is an exercise in minimalist restraint for it is…
An electronics store displaying CRT TVs in a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia (2002)
Bernard Mandeville's work Fable of the Bees, which justified conspicuous consumption
Josiah Wedgwood's pottery, a status symbol of consumerism in the late 18th century
Black Friday shoppers, DC USA