Writing About Media: Gender And Sexuality
Combining focused writing instruction with a media literacy perspective, Writing About Media serves as an invaluable tool for college and upper-level high school writing and composition teachers. This package features more than four hours of clips s...
Writing About Media: Race And Class
Combining focused writing instruction with a media literacy perspective, Writing About Media serves as an invaluable tool for college and upper-level high school writing and composition teachers. This package features more than four hours of clips s...
Generation M: misogyny in media and culture
For all of the achievements of the women’s movement over the past four decades, misogyny remains a persistent force in American culture. In this important new documentary, Thomas Keith, Professor of Philosophy at California State University-Long B...
Militainment, Inc.: militarism and pop culture
Militainment, Inc. offers a fascinating, disturbing, and timely glimpse into the militarization of American popular culture, examining how U.S. news coverage has come to resemble Hollywood film, video games, and "reality television" in its glamoriza...
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
This critically-acclaimed documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites work in combination with Israeli public relations strategists to exercise a powerful influence over news coverage of the Middle East conflict...
Hip hop: beyond beats & rhymes
A riveting examination of masculinity, sexism, and homophobia in hop-hop culture. Delivering a self-described "loving critique" of rap music, director Byron Hurt - a former star college quarterback, longtime hip-hop fan, and now gender violence pre...
Dreamworlds 3: desire, sex & power in music video. Abridged version
Dreamworlds 3, the highly anticipated update of Dreamworlds 2 (1995), examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and by extension boys and men, providing a meticulous analysis of how these narratives reflect and shape...
Reel Bad Arabs
This groundbreaking documentary takes aim at a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged from the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, ...
Reviving Ophelia: saving the selves of adolescent girls
Based on Mary Pipher's bestselling book, this illustrated interview examines the challenges faced by teenage girls, and the role media and popular culture play in shaping their identities. Reviving Ophelia inspires families, teachers, schools, and ...
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Robert McChesney, author of the award-winning book of the same title, examines the impact of media consolidation on journalism and democracy. He argues that far from delivering on the promise of more choice and greater diversity, consolidation has ...