From Media Education Foundation Studios
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2016
The Occupation of the American Mind
The Occupation of the American Mind8.30 2016 HD
Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a...
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2022
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL1 2022 HD
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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1997
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media8.00 1997 HD
Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the accuracy or inaccuracy of specific representations,...
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2010
The Mean World Syndrome
The Mean World Syndrome1 2010 HD
For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these...
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2020
The Man Card
The Man Card1 2020 HD
For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have repeatedly criticized the left for playing “the race card” and “the woman...
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2018
Digital Disconnect
Digital Disconnect10.00 2018 HD
In this era of Facebook privacy breaches, "fake news" and filter bubbles, this essential film trains its sights on the relationship between the...
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2010
The Codes of Gender
The Codes of Gender6.50 2010 HD
Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial...
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2003
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Rich Media, Poor Democracy1 2003 HD
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...
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2018
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse1 2018 HD
In this highly anticipated sequel to his groundbreaking, ADVERTISING AND THE END OF THE WORLD, media scholar Sut Jhally explores the devastating...
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2000
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games1 2000 HD
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...
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2023
Beyond the Straight and Narrow
Beyond the Straight and Narrow1 2023 HD
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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2000
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women6.50 2000 HD
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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1970
The Bystander Moment
The Bystander Moment1 1970 HD
The #MeToo movement has shined much-needed light on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse and created unprecedented demand for gender...
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2002
Playing Unfair
Playing Unfair4.00 2002 HD
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...
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2012
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships1 2012 HD
Social and developmental psychologist and author Lynn Phillips explores the line between consent and coercion in this thought-provoking look at...
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2000
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial1 2000 HD
Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of studios and their owners, rather than...
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2013
Tough Guise 2
Tough Guise 21 2013 HD
In this highly anticipated update of the influential and widely acclaimed Tough Guise, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist...
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1970
You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity
You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity1 1970 HD
NFL veteran Don McPherson examines how definitions of masculinity adversely affect women and create "blind spots" that hinder the healthy development...
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1970
The Great White Hoax
The Great White Hoax1 1970 HD
THE GREAT WHITE HOAX, featuring acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores how American political leaders of both parties have been...
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1997
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation1 1997 HD
bell hooks is one of America's most accessible public intellectuals. In this two-part video, extensively illustrated with many of the images under...