Middletown: Second Time Around

Directed by Peter Davis and John Lindley

60 minutes / Color
Release: 1982
Copyright: 1982

Focusing on the wedding arrangements of David and Elaine, each of whom is a divorcee, SECOND TIME AROUND presents the complexities of contemporary marriage in the United States.

Inspired by the studies of Robert and Helen Lynd in 1929 and 1935, MIDDLETOWN, a classic six-part documentary series by Academy Award and Emmy winner Peter Davis (HEARTS AND MINDS), explores both the continuity and the change embodied in the people and institutions of one Midwestern community: Muncie, Indiana. In intimate detail, the six films that comprise MIDDLETOWN demonstrate how the society and culture of Muncie, perhaps of the entire American social fabric, have changed less than one might think in the six decades since the Lynds' studies.

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