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Life is a Pitch
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Thursday Nov 6, 2008 (8pm)
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$10
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The ability to sell anything, from material objects to immaterial ideas, has been an oft-mocked American feature, the equal of the Southern accent or the go-big-or-go-home mindset. Part two of BAM's Between the Lines series, Life Is a Pitch explores this American asset in practice around the globe, and particularly in the superpower-to-be, China. For starters, tonight's excerpt from Weijun Chen's documentary Please Vote for Me — a chronicle of a third-grade election for class monitor in Wuhan — illustrates how self-promotion has changed the once-elementary game in the Middle Kingdom. The reading portion, meanwhile, features John Brandon on slinging drugs in the South, Amy Leach on modern missionaries, and Kevin A. Gonzalez on the commodification of identities.
