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Media Education Foundation Media | Gender | Race | Class | Health | Politics | Culture | Commercialism media education foundation media | gender | race | class | health | politics | culture | commercialism documentary films. challenging media. 2015-2016 *Discountcatalog available when you purchase 3-Year Streaming and DVD together. Please inquire. Watch trailers & previews at www.mediaed.org | 1 www.mediaed.org “If you’re going to watch one documentary MEDIA EDUCATION The nonprofit Media Education Foundation produces and distributes documentary films and other educational on the beauty industrial complex, this should be it.” resources to inspire critical reflection on the social, FOUNDATION political, and cultural impact of American mass media. Lisa Wade | Associate Professor of Sociology, Occidental College NEW BOARD OF ADVISORS RELEASES Streaming Noam Chomsky | Jeff Cohen FALL 2015 Susan Douglas | Michael Eric Dyson Susan Faludi | Henry Giroux | bell hooks Subscriptions Jackson Katz | Jean Kilbourne Naomi Klein | Robert McChesney Jack Shaheen | Juliet Schor | Norman Now Available! Solomon | John Stauber | Ellen Wartella The Illusionists MEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION Page 3 “MEF Digital is a classroom goldmine.” 60 Masonic St. | Northampton, MA 01060 Tel. 800.897.0089 | Fax 800.659.6882 Lisa Henderson | Professor of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst www.mediaed.org | [email protected] “One of the best acquisitions in decades.” SUPPORTING MEF You can support MEF’s independent, Jessie Daniels | Professor of Sociology, Hunter College nonprofit mission by purchasing the Guyland videos in this catalog and using them to Page 5 inspire critical thinking about media. 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Thank you. “If you’re going to watch one documentary on the beauty industrial complex, this should be it.” Lisa Wade | Associate Professor of Sociology, Occidental College “Important. Expands “Should be required the critique of viewing for women unattainable beauty of all ages.” to a global scale.” Julie Zeilinger | Author, A Little F’d Up: Why Feminism Christopher Mark Boulton is Not a Dirty Word Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Tampa “Reminds us who the real illusionists “Exactly the kind of are: the beauty, documentary that diet, and mass we need right now.” media industries.” The Gloss BeautyRedefined.net THE ILLUSIONISTS A film by Elena Rossini The Illusionists examines how global advertising firms, mass media conglomerates, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic surgery industries are changing the way people around the world define beauty and see themselves. Taking us from Harvard to the halls of the Louvre Museum, from a cosmetic surgeon’s office in Beirut to the heart of Tokyo’s Electric Town, the film explores how these industries saturate our lives with narrow, Westernized, consumer-driven images of beauty that show little to no respect for biological realities or cultural differences. Features Jean Kilbourne, Susie Orbach, Laura Mulvey, Gail Dines, Susan Linn, and other prominent sociologists, politicians, magazine editors, scientists, artists, and activists in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. College/University: DVD: $295 / 3-year streaming: $350 | Community College: DVD: $236 / 3-year streaming: $280 | High School/Nonprofit: DVD: $150 / 3-year streaming: $280 2015 | Item #255 | 54 min. | English captions | Preview Online BESTSELLERS Killing Us Softly 4 Tough Guise 2 Advertising’s Image of Women Violence, Manhood & American Culture Featuring JEAN KILBOURNE Featuring JACKSON KATZ Now available in full and abridged versions! BESTSELLER BESTSELLER “Ads sell more than products. They sell values, ”A piece of art crafted In this highly acclaimed sequel to Tough Guise, “Jackson Katz has they sell images, they sell concepts of love over four decades, this pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural thoroughly updated and sexuality, of success, and perhaps most film will change, and theorist Jackson Katz argues that the dispro- Tough Guise without important, of normalcy. To a great extent they perhaps even save, lives. portionate rates of men’s violence in America sacrificing any of its tell us who we are, and who we should be.” A must-have, even if are rooted not in biology but in regressive social passion and analysis. It your library owns norms. Cutting across racial, ethnic, and class remains the touchstone —JEAN KILBOURNE previous releases.” lines, Katz provides a stunning look at the sexist, work for all cinematic homophobic, and self-destructive messages that efforts to map the obvi- This newest edition of Jean Kilbourne’s influ- SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL target boys and young men from virtually every ous and subtle links ential and award-winning Killing Us Softly series corner of the culture – from television, movies, between masculinity shows how the advertising industry continues “As timely and and video games to pornography and the sports and violence.” to reinforce, and glamorize, a regressive and important as ever. culture – and shows how these messages combine debased notion of femininity. Using a wide A must for everyone MICHAEL KIMMEL to normalize and glamorize violent forms of mas- Professor, Stony Brook range of contemporary print and television ads, who cares about media culinity. The result is a powerful rebuke to the idea University Kilbourne lays bare a misogynistic fantasy world literacy and gender that being a man requires putting up a false front, of undernourished, oversexed, and objectified equity.” “I was sure Tough Guise disrespecting others, and acting out violently. women, and examines these images against the SUSAN DOUGLAS 2 could not possibly Available in your choice of a Full or Abridged Version. The Full DVD Author, Where the Girls Are outdo the original. I real-world backdrop of eating disorders, men’s vio- contains the full version of the film. The Abridged DVD has two was wrong. A brave, lence against women, and the political backlash “Jean Kilbourne’s work separate abridged versions — a 52-minute version edited for length graphically documented against feminism. At once provocative and inspir- is pioneering and crucial and violence, and a 46-minute “clean” version edited for violence and language. While both abridged versions contain less violence and indictment of a society ing, Killing Us Softly 4 challenges young people to to the dialogue of one of sexual imagery than the full-length version, the clean version may that promotes the question traditional gender norms and think criti- the most underexplored, be more suitable for younger audiences. glorification of male cally about the fundamental relationship between yet most powerful, violence.” representation and power. realms of American FULL VERSION: NORM STAMPER culture — advertising. College/University: DVD $295 | 3-Year Streaming $350* College/University: DVD $295 | 3-Year Streaming $350* Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $280* Former Chief of the Seattle GUYLAND Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $280* We owe her a great debt.” High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming: $280* Police Force High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming: $280* SUSAN FALUDI 2013 | Item #237 | 78 min. | English and Spanish captions 2010 | Item #241 | 45 min. | English & Spanish captions | Preview online Author, Backlash and Stiffed Preview online “Obligatory viewing for anyone concerned ABRIDGED VERSION: about the epidemic of College/University: $295 | 3-Year Streaming $350* male violence.” Comm College; DVD: $150 | 3-Year Streaming: $280* 2013 | Item #252 | 52 min. (abridged version) 46 min. (“clean” GAIL DINES version) | English captions | Preview online Professor, Wheelock College VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: BOTH VERSIONS “As entertaining as it is CONTAIN VIOLENT AND SEXUAL IMAGERY brilliantly insightful.” TOM DIGBY Tough Guise, the original 1999 version, is still
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