Media Education Foundation Movies
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The Codes of Gender
The Codes of GenderMOVIE
Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial cu...
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Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFLMOVIE
Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politics before Colin Kaepernick and...
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The Occupation of the American Mind
The Occupation of the American MindMOVIE
Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierc...
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The Mean World Syndrome
The Mean World SyndromeMOVIE
For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these debat...
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Beyond the Straight and Narrow
Beyond the Straight and NarrowMOVIE
How did the rise of LGBTQ visibility, political progress, and digital technologies in the 2000s come together to offer the abundance of complex queer...
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Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video GamesMOVIE
Video and computer games represent a $6 billion a year industry. One out of every ten households in American owns a Sony Playstation. Children who own...
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Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Rich Media, Poor DemocracyMOVIE
Robert McChesney lays the blame for the US's current state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from d...
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White Like Me
White Like MeMOVIE
In White Like Me, anti-racist educator Tim Wise explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege.
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The Man Card
The Man CardMOVIE
For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have repeatedly criticized the left for playing “the race card” and “the woman card.” This new film turn...
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bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & TransformationMOVIE
bell hooks is one of America's most accessible public intellectuals. In this two-part video, extensively illustrated with many of the images under ana...
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Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of WomenMOVIE
Jean Kilbourne's pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning Killing us Softly...
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Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Advertising at the Edge of the ApocalypseMOVIE
In this highly anticipated sequel to his groundbreaking, ADVERTISING AND THE END OF THE WORLD, media scholar Sut Jhally explores the devastating perso...
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Digital Disconnect
Digital DisconnectMOVIE
In this era of Facebook privacy breaches, "fake news" and filter bubbles, this essential film trains its sights on the relationship between the intern...
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Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Stuart Hall: Representation & the MediaMOVIE
Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the accuracy or inaccuracy of specific representations, H...
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Advertising and the End of the World
Advertising and the End of the WorldMOVIE
Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, Sut Jhally asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this market-based...
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Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual RelationshipsMOVIE
Social and developmental psychologist and author Lynn Phillips explores the line between consent and coercion in this thought-provoking look at popula...
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Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes HypercommercialMOVIE
Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of studios and their owners, rather than entertainme...
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Tough Guise 2
Tough Guise 2MOVIE
In this highly anticipated update of the influential and widely acclaimed Tough Guise, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist Jackson...
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Playing Unfair
Playing UnfairMOVIE
It has been 30 years since Title IX legislation granted women equal playing time, but the male-dominated world of sports journalism has yet to catch u...
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Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream
Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American DreamMOVIE
What do popular television makeover programs like What Not to Wear, The Biggest Loser, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and The Swan tell us about how...