Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price [Paperback]

Greg Spotts (Author), Robert Greenwald (Introduction)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2005

A key element of a massive campaign that will peak at the time of the books' publication.

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About the Author

Greg Spotts serves on the Santa Monica Arts Commission. He is the director of the film American Jobs, a documentary looking at the loss of blue and white collar jobs to global sourcing. Greenwald executive produced the 2002 documentary, "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election". The success and political impact of that project led Greenwald to commit to two additional "Un" documenataries -- "Uncovered", which he produced and directed, and "Unconstitutional", about the erosion of American civil liberties following the events of September 11.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: The Disinformation Company (November 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932857249
• ISBN-13: 978-1932857245
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #166,839 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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20 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Wrong Book, December 17, 2005

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Kevin L. Nenstiel "omnivore" (Kearney, Nebraska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (Paperback)

Usually, when a book is published to coincide with the release of a documentary film, the book contains details and information that serve to flesh out the synoptic look that the documentary format provides. If you're looking for that sort of book here, I'm sorry, my friend. This is the wrong book.

Instead of looking at the information stored in the movie, this is a making-of document. It goes point-by-point through initial research and primary shooting up to about halfway through post-production. Also there are little pointers interspersed through the film on how to make politically motivated documentaries, in case the reader wants to be the Cecil B. DeMille of political harangues.

I'm sure there are people who are interested in the internal controversies that accompanied designing the poster for this film. I'm sure some people are interested on why one of the principal interviews, with a former Wal-Mart manager, takes place in a car and looks so incredibly cramped. But that's not why I bought this book, and that's probably not why you're considering it. This is E! True Hollywood Story stuff, not the content of a companion volume for a political diatribe.

Where this should be a book of hard facts that can be used in arguments against the continued invasion of the Wal-Martians, instead we get backlot gossip and pelf. Perhaps another book is in the offing in the near future, containing a more detailed look at the information in the movie. In the meantime, unless you hope to be a documentarian yourself, save your money. This isn't the book for which you're looking.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars thought this was the movie, September 25, 2008

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This review is from: Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (Paperback)

It is how they made the movie and their struggle to get it out. I guess it may help those hoping to do the same thing.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Expected, January 16, 2007

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C. Zachar "Attymans" (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (Paperback)

I learned of the subject matter through my brother, who advised me that I "had to" learn about this information. I went to Amazon to buy the book, admittedly not scanning the reviews first. Big mistake. This book involves a behind the scenes at the "making of" the documentary film. It does not discuss with any great detail the issues or criticisms of Walmart, which is what I was really looking to know. As anxious as I was to receive and read the book, I am disappointed now. If anyone is interested in these issues, it would be my advice to get and watch the film---do not buy this book.