Writing about media: Media And Politics
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...
Shop 'til You Drop
Are we too materialistic? Are we willfully trashing the planet in our pursuit of things? And what's the source of all this frenetic consumer energy and desire anyway? In a fast-paced tour of the ecological and psychological terrain of American consu...
Consuming Kids
With virtually no government or public outcry, the multi-billion dollar youth marketing industry has been able to use the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and ...
Writing About Media
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: 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...
The Overspent American
This powerful video scrutinizes what Juliet Schor calls "the new consumerism" - a national phenomenon of upscale spending shaped and reinforced by a media system driven by commercial interests. Illustrated with hundreds of media examples, The Overs...
Advertising & the end of the world
In Advertising & the End of the World, Sut Jhally, Executive Director of MEF, exposes the inherent conflict between commercial culture - as aggressively sold by private, global media systems - and environmental stewardship. This powerful video goes...
Behind The Screens
Behind the Screens explores the trend toward "hypercommercialism" in Hollywood film: product placement, tie-ins, merchandising, and cross-promotions. The film mixes clips from popular Hollywood films with expert commentary to show how movies have b...