Film Series: Exit Zero
Presented by Michelle Stefano
When the steel mills began closing on Chicago's Southeast Side, residents could feel the American Dream slipping away. Decades later, the loss of the steel industry has left permanent scars. The documentary film, Exit Zero: An Industrial Family Story, is named for the highway exit number for Chicago’s old steel mill neighbourhoods and captures the feeling of a region passed over. In poignant and sometimes humorous terms, the film tracks the stories of multiple generations of a single family, as they build lives in a community once dependent on the mills, deal with the fallout caused by the mills’ collapse, and face the environmental devastation that remains. Interweaving home movies, archival footage, verite sequences, and a first person narrative, the film offers an intimate look at one family's experience with growing inequality in the United States and the uncertain future faced by working people. Its story reflects some of the most crucial issues facing the contemporary United States: the widening gap between rich and poor, the collapse of the American Dream for many formerly “middle class” communities, and the toxic legacy of the industrial past.
The Exit Zero Project (www.exitzeroproject.org) includes the documentary film by Chris Boebel and Christine Walley, as well as an Exit Zero book by Walley, and an in-progress online archive and storytelling site about deindustrialization being made in collaboration with the all-volunteer Southeast Chicago Historical Museum.
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The Film Series is sponsored by the Department of American Studies of the University of Maryland and the Association of Critical Heritage Studies United States Chapter
Personnes inscrites
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Marie-Blanche Fourcade
Professeure associée -
Jessica Mace
Chercheure postdoctorale, UQAM -
Robyn Clinch
Heritage planner, University of Melbourne -
Tanya Southcott
McGill University -
Tessa Pijnaker
University of Amsterdan -
Gabriella Olshammar
Researcher, University of Gothenburg -
Caecilia Alexandre
PhD Student, Université Laval, Université de Montréal, Faculté de Droit -
Zara Fournier
Phd candidate in geography, Université François Rabelais Tours -
Aline Hémond
Professeur en Anthropologie, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne -
Antonella Tufano
ENSAPLV -
Candace Iron
Professor (Partial-Load), Humber College, Toronto -
Eman Shokry Hesham
PhD Candidate, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus- Senftenberg, Germany -
Lucy Brown
Scottish Oral History Centre, University of Strathclyde -
t s Beall
Artist and Collaborative Doctoral Award recipient, University of Glasgow and The Riverside Museum, Glasgow Museums -
Yaryna Yuryk
Lviv Polytechnic National University -
Dominique Schoeni
Anthropologue et muséographe, Laboratório de Etnografia Metropolitana (LeMetro) IFCS - UFRJ (Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro) -
Patrick Giromini
PhD Candidate, EPFL -
Colm Murray
The Heritage Council of Ireland -
Mathieu Fribault
Ethnologue, EHESS Paris / Centre Norbert Elias -
Lionel Prigent
Maître de conférences, Institut de Géoarchitecture -
Marie-Paule Macdonald
university of waterloo -
Cynthia Scott
Independent Historian and Heritage Scholar -
Samuel Mathieu
doctorant , UQAM -
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