MIRANDA
a hypertext of Huxley's Brave New World

Social Class in America (1957)

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Social Class in America
1957
Shows the differences in the life experience of three male babies from three different social classes. One young man succeeds his father as president of the family manufacturing company. Another, a middle-class white-collar worker at the same company, leaves the town of his birth and moves to New York City where he becomes a respected advertising art director, thus rising in social status. A third, born into the working class, trains as a mechanic and holds an influential job at a service station. The sociological tone of the film does not mask a sobering narrative of the limitations that social class divisions inflict on all Americans.

Sponsor: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.
Producer: Knickerbocker Productions
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Keywords: Sociology; Class; 1950s

 

Questions for Writing:

1) Discuss the caste system of BNW as it relates to the information in this film.

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