American Music: Off the Record (2008)

Directed by

Benjamin Meade

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 29m

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This documentary examines the American music industry through interviews with theorists. It looks at issues like live music's authenticity, indie distribution, and the decline of small music stores.

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What happens

American Music: Off the Record is a 2008 American documentary film that features theorists Noam Chomsky and Douglas Rushkoff in an interrogation of the American music industry. The film covers a great deal of ground from the authenticity of live music to the circumvention of the corporate machine by indie distribution, to the demise of the privately owned music store. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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