Detropia (2012)

Directed by

Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines the decline of Detroit's economy due to changes in the auto industry. It shows how residents and the city's infrastructure have been affected.

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What happens

Detropia is a 2012 American documentary film, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, about the city of Detroit, Michigan. It focuses on the decline of the economy of Detroit due to long-term changes in the automobile industry, and the effects that the decline has had on the city's residents and infrastructure. The film's name came from a portmanteau of the words "Detroit" and "Utopia", and was inspired by an abandoned auto parts store, where the letter "A" in "AUTO" and the letters "R", "T", and "S" in "PARTS" were missing from the store's sign. The letter "I" had been painted into the appropriate part of the store front to make the sign read "UTO PIA". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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