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What is democracy? [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Astra Taylor.

Zeitgeist Films : marketed and distributed by Kino Lorber, 2019.

DVD 321.8 W555 Doc

Democracy -- History.

Political science.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (107 min.) : 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally produced as a documentary film in 2018.

Special features: Deleted scenes ; Q&A at The Jacob Burns Film Center ; trailer interview with Astra Taylor on the dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

Closed-captioned.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

The National Film Board of Canada presents ; produced by Lea Marin ; written and directed by Astra Taylor.

Wendy Brown, Silvia Federici, George A. Papandreou and Angela Davis.

"Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is Democracy? reflects on a word we too often take for granted. Director Astra Taylor’s idiosyncratic, philosophical journey spans millennia and continents: from ancient Athens’ 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. Celebrated theorists Silvia Federici, Cornel West, Wendy Brown, and Angela Davis are joined by trauma surgeons, activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, former prime ministers, and others. This urgent film connects the past and the present, the emotional and the intellectual, the personal and the political, in order to provoke and inspire. If we want to live in a democracy, we must first ask what the word even means."--Container.

Documentary films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

National Film Board of Canada.

Zeitgeist Films.

Kino Lorber, Inc.

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