TY  - ADVS
AU  - Schor,Juliet
AU  - Garner,Kelly
TI  - The overspent American: why we want what we don't need 
SN  - 1893521915
PY  - 2007///
CY  - United States
PB  - Media Education Foundation
KW  - Consumer behavior
KW  - United States
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Credit
KW  - Debt
KW  - Finance, Personal
KW  - Lifestyles
N1  - Title from title screen; The cycle of work and spend -- Stretching reference groups -- The visible lifestyle -- The costs of overspending -- Getting off the consumer escalator -- Downshifting -- Kid spending -- Lipstick -- SUV advertising; Executive producers, Sut Jhally ; editor, camera, Kelly Garner; Juliet Schor
N2  - Film explains the cultural forces behind Americans overspending in order to demonstrate material success. The overspent American challenges the inevitability of the consumer lifestyle by proposing alternatives to the work and spend cycle that has so many Americans feeling trapped and fulfilled
ER  -