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The Bro Code Generation M How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men Misogyny in Media & Culture A film by THOMAS KEITH A film by THOMAS KEITH “Ties together complex issues of misogyny, sexism, and pop culture in ways that are sure to stimulate insight and debate.” SHIRA TARRANT Filmmaker Thomas Keith explores the stunning Author, Men and Feminism resurgence of a toxic stain of sexism and misogyny “Recommended.” in American popular culture, paying special attention to the rise of misogynistic program- EDUCATIONAL MEDIA REVIEWS ONLINE ming and advertising targeted explicitly at young men. In the process, Keith shows how our “enter- “Sure to be a valuable tainment” culture has been working for years to discussion starter cultivate — and normalize — many of the same that will encourage reactionary attitudes about women that have students to think criti- now spilled over into the mainstream political cally about the ways Filmmaker Thomas Keith teases out the main “An excellent tool for debate. Features Byron Hurt, Jackson Katz, Jean in which media can tenets of “bro culture” and “the bro code,” and classroom discussion Kilbourne, Kimberly Salter, and others. examines how this seemingly ironic mental- about the damaging shape our perceptions. College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 ity reinforces misogyny and gender violence impact of media and Recommended.” Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 VIDEO LIBRARIAN in the real world. Ranging from movies and pornography on men High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 music videos that glamorize womanizing to and the women around 2008 | Item #234 | 60 min. | English captions | Preview online men’s magazines and cable TV shows that them.” revel in reactionary myths of American man- PAUL KIVEL hood, the message Keith uncovers in virtually Author, Men’s Work, every corner of our “entertainment” culture is Boys Will Be Men Dreamworlds 3 clear: that it’s not only normal — but cool — Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video “Anyone who believes for boys and men to control and humiliate Featuring SUT JHALLY women. Along the way, The Bro Code makes that the US is in a post- a powerful case that there’s nothing nor- feminist era should take “An invaluable teaching mal, natural, or inevitable about this toxic a quick and dirty tour tool. Does a superb job ideal of American manhood, and challenges of ‘bro culture’ with of presenting difficult young people to fight back against the resur- Thomas Keith as guide.” truths about our hyper- gent idea that being a “bro” — and a man — Joan C. Chrisler sexualized, hypermascu- means glorifying sexism, bullying, and abuse. Sex Roles: A Journal of linized culture.“ Research Interviews include Michael Kimmel, Robert ROBERT JENSEN Dreamworlds 3, the latest in Sut Jhally’s critically Professor of Journalism, Jensen, Shira Tarrant, J.W. Wiley, Douglas “I readily suggest this acclaimed critiques of music video, uncovers University of Texas Rushkoff, Eric Anderson, and Neal King. important video to any- a dangerous industry preoccupation with reac- Viewer Discretion Advised: Contains violent & sexual imagery “Highly recommended.” one who is involved in tionary ideals of femininity and masculinity, and College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 gender justice education.” shows how these ideals have glamorized a deeply EDUCATIONAL MEDIA REVIEWS ONLINE Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 DERRICK L. WILLIAMS, PH.D. sexist worldview in the face of the women’s High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Violence Prevention movement and the fight for women’s rights. 2011 | Item #246 | 58 min. | English captions | Preview online Coordinator, Southern “The role of media Illinois University, Dreamworlds 3 challenges young people to think images in our everyday Carbondale critically about commercial ideals of femininity lives has never been and masculinity, and how innocent entertain- more powerfully dem- ment can be implicated in real-world problems onstrated.” like gender violence, misogyny, homophobia, Robin Rieske and racism. President, Action Coalition Full Version: Item #223 | 60 min. for Media Education - VT Abridged Version (Edited for nudity, profanity, and length): Item #229 | 35 min. College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 BOTH VERSIONS CONTAIN VIOLENCE & High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 SEXUAL IMAGERY 2007 | English captions | Preview online

04 | Watch trailers & previews at www.mediaed.org In this highly anticipated update of the influential and widely acclaimed Tough Guise, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist Jackson Katz argues that the ongoing epidemic of men’s violence in America is rooted in our inability as a society to move beyond outmoded ideals of manhood. In a sweeping analysis that cuts across racial, ethnic, and class lines, Katz examines mass shootings, day-to-day gun violence, violence against women, bullying, gay-bashing, and American militarism against the backdrop of a culture that has normalized violent and regressive forms of masculinity in the face of challenges to traditional male power and authority. Along the way, the film provides a stunning look at the violent, sexist, and homophobic messages boys and young men routinely receive from virtually every corner of the culture, from television, movies, video games, and advertising to pornography, the sports culture, and US political culture. Tough Guise 2 stands to empower a new generation of young men — and women — to challenge the myth that being a real man means putting up a false front and engaging in violent and self-destructive behavior. Viewer Discretion Advised: Contains violent & sexual imagery College/Univ: DVD $295 | 3-Year Streaming $295 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $370 Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $236 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $311 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2013 | Item #237 | Approx. 60 min. | English and Spanish captions | Preview online

Tough Guise DVD PRICE REDUCED! Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity Featuring JACKSON KATZ Jackson Katz’s groundbreaking look at the crisis in masculinity, the first film of its kind to examine the relationship between cultural ideals of manhood and violence, has become a staple of media studies and gender violence prevention efforts around the world. Years after its release, it remains an ideal introduction to contemporary thinking about sexist and homophobic masculine norms. College/Univ: DVD $250 $100 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 | Comm College: DVD $150 $75 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 $75 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Full Version: Item #211 | Abridged Version: Item #212 | 1999 | 82 min. (full version) 53 min. (abr.) | English captions | Preview online

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Hip-Hop Not Just a Game Race, Power & Beyond Beats & Rhymes Power, Politics & American Sports American Sports A film by BYRON HURT Featuring DAVE ZIRIN A conversation with DAVE ZIRIN & SUT JHALLY

Byron Hurt’s groundbreaking documentary In this exhilarating tour of the good, the bad, and Cultural historian and Nation magazine writer about masculinity, sexism, and homophobia in the ugly of American sports culture, Dave Zirin Dave Zirin, whose influential blog and bestselling the world of hip-hop pays tribute to the creativ- explodes the myth that the world of sports some- books have offered searing insights into the pol- ity and artistry of rap music while challenging how stands outside the world of politics and ide- itics of American sports, turns his attention to its glamorization of destructive stereotypes of ology. On one level, he explores how American race and racism in this fascinating conversation manhood. The film has earned widespread praise sports culture has long been a haven for the most with MEF executive director Sut Jhally. Jhally, a for its fearless engagement with race and racism, reactionary attitudes and ideas, promoting ev- communications scholar whose own work has gender violence, and the corporate exploitation of erything from nationalism to sexism, racism, and sought to clarify the relationship between popu- youth culture. Featuring Mos Def, Fat Joe, Chuck homophobia. But he also identifies an equally lar culture and racial attitudes, engages Zirin D, Jadakiss, Busta Rhymes, Russell Simmons, strong countercurrent — a history of rebel ath- in a penetrating analysis of how sports culture Michael Eric Dyson, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and letes whose high-profile stands against jingois- has worked both to reproduce and contest the Kevin Powell. Produced & directed by Byron Hurt. A co-production of tic patriotism, heterosexist masculine authority, wider culture’s dominant ideas about race and God Bless the Child Productions, Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) white male privilege, and other forms of bullying racial difference. in association with the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC). have reverberated beyond the field of play. “Powerful and the perfect media tool for any “Captivating.” “Hard-hitting.” “It’s got everything: gender, race, class, and class that focuses on critical race theory in THE BOSTON GLOBE REUTERS sexuality, and an anti-bullying message that’s as American sport.” effective as it is inspiring. I can’t recommend it “A long-needed intervention.” Gary Sailes | Associate Professor of Kinesiology, highly enough.” Indiana University – Bloomington TRICIA ROSE | Africana Studies, Brown University JACKSON KATZ | Creator, Tough Guise “An important film, unlike any other currently “A fast-paced, theoretically conscious analysis of “A powerful teaching tool.” available.” the socially significant issues of gender and race Robert Lipsyte | Former New York Times sportswriter RICHARD KING | Professor of Critical Culture, Gender & identities as performance.” Race Studies, Washington State University Susan M. Alexander | Teaching Sociology “If you’re looking for new ways to talk about sexism, racism, homophobia, or bullying in your class- “Insightful, incisive, and brave. A must-see. Dave “A tough-minded, erudite dissection of misogyny room without turning your students off, this is the Zirin is brilliant in tracing the complex intersection and homophobia in hip-hop — in the tradition of of race and sports in this country over the course film for you.” Supersize Me — this is the one that has people of more than a century.” Jesse Hagopian | History teacher buzzing, ‘It should be taught in high schools!’” N. Jeremi Duru | Professor of Law, American University SCOTT BROWN | Entertainment Weekly “If there were an award for ’Most Valuable “Candid, provocative, and important.” VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: Sportswriter,’ I would vote for Dave Zirin.” BOTH FULL & ABRIDGED VERSIONS CONTAIN VIOLENT AND SEXUAL IMAGERY HOWARD ZINN Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D. | Professor of Sport Management, Drexel University Full Version: Item #226 | 60 min. College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 College/University: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 Abridged Version (Edited for nudity and profanity): Item #233 | 55 min. Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 Comm College: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 College/University: DVD $295 | 3-Year Streaming $295 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $370 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $236 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $311 2010 | Item #151 | 62 min. | English captions | Preview online High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2013 | Item #158 | 45 min. | English captions | Preview online 2006 | English captions | Preview online

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White Like Me How Racism Harms White Americans Race, Racism & White Privilege in America An illustrated lecture with JOHN H. BRACEY JR. Featuring TIM WISE “A powerful and painful demonstration of how democracy has been thwarted repeatedly by white supremacy.” George Lipsitz Professor of Black Studies, UC-Santa Barbara and Author, How Racism Takes Place In a departure from analyses of racism that have focused primarily on white power and privi- “Here is a story that lege, distinguished historian John H. Bracey Jr. every American needs offers a provocative analysis of the devastating to hear.” economic, political, and social effects of racism Dr. Matthew Frye on white Americans. Discussing topics ranging Jacobson from the pivotal role slavery played in the war Professor of American for independence to the segregation of labor Studies and History, Yale University unions, Bracey’s baseline point is that failing to acknowledge the centrality of race, and racism, “Every university video White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed “Wise’s political savvy, to American history not only minimizes the suf- library should own this anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, intellectual prowess, fering of black people, but also blinds us to how gem!” explores race and racism in the US through and emotional honesty white people have been harmed as well. Howard winant the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a make this one of the College/University: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 Director, University of stunning reassessment of the American ideal best films made on the Comm College: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 California Center for New Racial Studies of meritocracy and claims that we’ve entered unfinished quest for High School/Nonprofit: DVD $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2013 | Item #420 | 45 min. | English captions | Preview online a post-racial society, Wise offers a fascinating racial justice.” look back at the race-based white entitlement Robert Jensen programs that built the American middle class, School of Journalism, and argues that our failure as a society to come University of TX - Austin to terms with this legacy of white privilege and Author, The Heart of Tim Wise: On White Privilege Whiteness continues to perpetuate racial inequality and Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality race-driven political resentments today. For “Tightly argued and years, Tim Wise’s bestselling books and spell- eye-opening. A vari- “Tim Wise is one of the binding lectures have challenged some of our ety of audiences will most brilliant, articu- most basic assumptions about race in America. be enlightened and late, and courageous White Like Me is the first film to bring the full inspired by this fine film.” critics of white privilege range of his work to the screen — to show how Kristen Norton in the nation. He is a white privilege continues to shape individual Associate Faculty, national treasure.” attitudes, electoral politics, and government Psychology, Norco College MICHAEL ERIC DYSON policy in ways too many white people never ”A powerful educational stop to think about. Features bestselling author “[Wise’s] work is revolu- vehicle for examining In this captivating lecture, the author of the tionary, and those who Michelle Alexander, Harvard Law professor bestselling White Like Me: Reflections on Race the structural, cultural, react negatively are Charles Ogletree, legal scholar Imani Perry, from a Privileged Son offers a powerful inside- and psychological forces simply afraid of hearing and others. out look at race and racism in America, survey- of privilege.” the truth.” College/University: DVD $275 | 3-Year Streaming $275 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $350 Lené Whitley-Putz ing the damage white privilege has done not Robin D.G. Kelley Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $220 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $295 Lecturer, Humanities only to people of color, but to white people Professor of History, UCLA High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Division, University of CA - themselves. The result is a vivid and accessible and Author, Race Rebels 2013 | Item #421 | 66 min. | English captions | Preview online Santa Cruz introduction to the social construction of racial identities, and a critical new educational tool “A vanilla brother in the for exploring the often invoked, but seldom tradition of John Brown.” explained, concept of white privilege. An excel- CORNEL WEST lent companion piece to MEF’s White Like Me Class of 1943 University Professor, Princeton and Race, Power & American Sports. University College/University: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 Comm College: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2008 | Item #137 | 57 min. | English captions | Preview online

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Michael Kimmel: Wrestling with Manhood I Am a Man On Gender Boys, Bullying & Battering Black Masculinity in America Mars, Venus or Planet Earth? Featuring SUT JHALLY & JACKSON KATZ A film by BYRON HURT Women & Men in a New Millennium

Influential sociologist Michael Kimmel, whose This devastating examination of professional Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt explores breakthrough scholarship has helped transform wrestling asks tough questions about what it what it means to be a black man in America. gender studies and complicate America’s most means when one of our most cherished forms of Traveling to more than fifteen cities and towns regressive myths of manhood, provides an acces- entertainment trades in the most brutal forms of across the country, Hurt gathers reflections on sible and absorbing introduction to the major bullying, misogyny, homophobia, and violence. black masculinity from men and women of a tenets of his work. In a direct challenge to self- Taking a close look at how professional wres- variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and a help guru John Gray’s wildly popular notion that tling’s favorite storylines alternately reflect and host of leading scholars and cultural critics. What “men are from Mars and women are from Venus,” reinforce a sexist cultural mythology that equates results is an engaging and honest dialogue about Kimmel argues that men and women have far masculinity with violence and control, Wrestling race, gender, and identity in America. Features more in common than traditionalists and gen- With Manhood challenges students to think in bell hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, John Henrick der essentialists would lead us to believe. The new ways about gender roles, gender violence, Clarke, Kevin Powell, Andrew Young, Dr. Alvin and bullying in our schools. DVD also includes a 61-minute result is a captivating and clear-eyed exposition of Poussaint, MC Hammer, Jackson Katz, and abridged version edited for profanity, length, and violence. cutting-edge gender theory. many others. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: BOTH VERSIONS CONTAIN VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL IMAGERY College/University: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 College/University: DVD $215 | 3-Year Streaming $215 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $290 Comm College: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $172 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $247 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2008 | Item #232 | 54 min. | English captions | Preview online High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 1998 | Item #227 | 60 min. | English captions | Preview online 2003 | Item #216 | 60 min. (full version) 45 min. (abr.) | English captions | Preview online

Boys to Men? Five Friends Framing an Execution A film by FREDERICK MARX A film by ERIK SANTIAGO The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal

Filmmaker Frederick Marx’s powerful follow-up Five Friends chronicles 65-year-old Hank Mandel’s Framing An Execution examines media coverage to his critically acclaimed documentary Hoop relationships with his five closest friends, providing of the controversial case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Dreams continues his extraordinary exploration a deeply personal look at how they navigate suc- journalist on death row for the fatal shooting of of the lives of boys and young men. Concerned cess, conflict, marriage, divorce, fatherhood, and a Philadelphia police officer. Focusing primarily once again with the distance between boys’ death, and revealing what men are capable of on an influential ABC 20/20 news report, the dreams and the limits of reality, Marx focuses when they dare to break out of “bro culture” and film raises serious questions about journalistic balance and fairness that resonate far beyond on a group of teenagers from a range of ethnic, open up to one another. Along the way, Five Friends this particular case. An important case study for racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds as they encourages us to think critically about the high students of journalism and communication. Narrated navigate troubled lives and shifting ideals of price boys and men too often pay for adhering by Danny Glover. manhood. The result is an intimate and acces- to rigid cultural ideals of manhood. A powerful sible snapshot of the deeper crisis in American resource for courses that examine gender roles College/University: DVD $125 $50 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $200 Comm College: DVD $75 $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 masculinity. “Are You Listening?” (52 min); “Al-Tran” (31 min); and masculinity. High School/Nonprofit: DVD $75 $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 “Cisco” (30 min); “Spencer” (30 min). Directed and produced by College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 Frederick Marx. A Warrior Educational Films Production. 2001 | Item #405 | 66 min. | English captions | Preview online Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 2011 | Item #245 | 70 min. | English captions | Preview online High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2004 | Item #228 | 2 hr 30 min. | English captions | Preview online

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Reel Bad Arabs Latinos Beyond Reel How Hollywood Vilifies a People Challenging a Media Stereotype Featuring JACK SHAHEEN A film by MIGUEL PICKER & CHYNG SUN An OPEN LENS MEDIA PRODUCTION ”Timely and salutary. Highly recommended for all public and academic libraries.” Library Journal

“Calm, measured, fair, even-handed, and com- Bestselling author Dr. Jack Shaheen examines the passionate. A powerful destructive effects of Hollywood’s long, degrading and important film that history of Arab and Muslim stereotyping. validates the human From Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens dignity of Arabs and to sinister sheikhs and bloodthirsty terrorists, Muslims.” Shaheen reveals how a narrow and pathological Laurence Michalak cast of fictional characters has worked to culti- Director, CEMAT vate anti-Arab sentiments in the United States, especially during times of political crisis. The “Performs an invaluable Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of the “A comprehensive and result is a searing critique of these stereotypes, service by visually dem- US population, and among the most diverse – powerful exploration of and a persuasive case for why media representa- onstrating the sheer accounting for one-sixth of all Americans and stereotypes of Latinos tions — and media education — matter. volume of unrelenting negative images found tracing their origin to more than 20 countries. and Latinas in American College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 They are also a rising force in American politics. media.” Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 in Hollywood film. Yet across the American media landscape, from Debra Merskin *Comm/Journalism Depts: DVD $150 $50 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $300 CINEASTE the broadcast airwaves to cable television and Professor of Communication, *High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 $10 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Hollywood film, the reality and richness of the University of Oregon 2006 | Item #412 | 50 min. | Arabic and English captions | Preview online Latino experience are virtually nowhere to be *Due to a gift from a generous donor, MEF is able to offer subsidized prices to high schools, public libraries, nonprofits, and Comm/Journalism departments. For more details, see www.mediaed.org. found. In Latinos Beyond Reel, filmmakers Miguel “A hard-hitting and Picker and Chyng Sun examine how US news engaging examination of and entertainment media portray — and do not Latinos in media. Highly portray — Latinos. Drawing on the insights of recommended!” bell hooks Latino scholars, journalists, community leaders, Lourdes Torres Cultural Criticism & Transformation actors, directors, and producers, they uncover Professor of Latin American a pattern of gross misrepresentation and gross and Latino Studies, DePaul University ”A great video to initiate under-representation — a world in which La- a discussion on pop cul- tinos tend to appear, if at all, as gangsters and “More than a compelling tural criticism.” Mexican bandits, harlots and prostitutes, drug documentary: it is a Albert Banerjee dealers and welfare-leeching illegals. The film timely indictment of Sociology Doctoral Student, challenges viewers to think critically about the an industry that con- York University wide-ranging effects of these media stereotypes, sistently maligns and and to envision alternative representations “This documentary misrepresents America’s more capable of capturing the humanity and should be a wake-up largest ethnic group.” diversity of real Latinos. DVD also includes a 61-minute Cultural critic bell hooks surveys the theoretical call to all of us.” abridged version, edited for length, violence and profanity. Myra Mendible framework that informs her work, and applies Hanna Debbagh Professor of English, Florida College/University: DVD $275 | 3-Year Streaming $275 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $350 it to a range of examples from American popu- Gender Sex Society Group B Gulf Coast University lar culture. In clear language that cuts through Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $220 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $295 academic jargon and makes theory speak to “Persuasive and passionate. High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 “A must-see documentary.” 2012 | Item #418 | 84 min. (full version) 61 min. (abr.) | English and Spanish captions | Preview online everyday life, hooks teases out the complicated Recommended for college- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva political dynamics embedded in a number of level sociology and com- Professor of Sociology, seemingly innocent movies and television shows. munications classes and Duke University In doing so, she shows how cultural analysis and community groups “A timely and important film.” critical pedagogy can inspire students to engage working to change media in ways that can make a difference in their media misrepresentations ARLENE DAVILA Professor of Anthropology own lives and in the world. of gender and ethnic and American Studies, New College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 differences.” York University Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 Transforming High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Communities 1997 | Item #402 | 66 min. | Preview online

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The Purity Myth The Codes of Gender The Virginity Movement’s War Against Women Identity & Performance in Popular Culture Featuring JESSICA VALENTI Featuring SUT JHALLY

In this powerful adaptation of her bestselling “A must-watch for any- Arguing that advertising not only sells things, “Brilliant. Insightful. book, pioneering feminist blogger Jessica Valenti one who cares about but also ideas about the world, media scholar A real eye-opener.“ trains her sights on “the virginity movement” — girls, women, or the Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of com- Roger Stole an unholy alliance of evangelical Christians, American education mercial culture’s inability to let go of reaction- Associate Professor of right-wing politicians, and conservative policy system.” ary gender representations. Jhally’s starting Communication, University of Illinois wonks who have been exploiting irrational fears Jill Filipovic point is the breakthrough work of the late about women’s sexuality to roll back women’s Feministe.us sociologist Erving Goffman, whose 1959 book “Will be of interest to rights. From dad-and-daughter ‘purity balls,’ The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life pre- all who question the “A surefire discussion taxpayer-funded abstinence-only programs, and figured the growing field of performance stud- visual images of what starter for women’s political attacks on Planned Parenthood, to re- ies. Jhally applies Goffman’s analysis of the is deemed natural and studies groups and cent attempts by legislators to de-fund women’s body in print advertising to hundreds of ads normal. A fitting tribute classes.” reproductive health care and narrow the legal today, uncovering an astonishing pattern of to Goffman.” definition of rape, Valenti identifies a single, BOOKLIST regressive and destructive gender codes. By Anna Hamling unifying assumption: the myth that the worth looking beyond advertising as a medium that Feminist Review “A must have for every of a woman depends on what she does — simply sells products, and beyond analyses of or does not do — sexually. In the end, Valenti ar- college campus! The gender that tend to focus on either biology “A fine, powerful, and gues that the health and well-being of women students who viewed important film.” or objectification, The Codes of Gender offers are too important to be left to ideologues bent the film felt outraged important insights into the social construction Jack David Eller, PH.D. on vilifying feminism and undermining women’s and angry, but they Anthropology Review of masculinity and femininity, the relationship autonomy. were also left with a Database sense of urgency to between gender and power, and the everyday College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 raise awareness on performance of cultural norms. DVD contains two “Completely engrossing.” Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 versions: a full-length version and an abridged version, which has campus.” Gary Handman High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 been edited for nudity and length. 2011 | Item #247 | 45 min. | English captions | Preview online Toby Simon Educational Media Reviews Online Director, Gertrude Meth Viewer Discretion Advised: Contains violence & Sexual themes Hochberg Women’s Center, College/University: DVD $275 | 3-Year Streaming $275 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $350 Bryant University Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $220 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $295 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 “Highly recommended.” 2009 | Item #238 | 72 min. (full length) 46 min. (abr.) | English captions | Preview online educational media reviews online

“A smart documentary.” ALESHA E. DOAN, PH.D. Author, The Politics of Virginity

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Flirting with Danger Killing Us Softly 4 Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships Advertising’s Image of Women Featuring Lynn PhillipS Featuring JEAN KILBOURNE

Social and developmental psychologist and “This is one of the best “Ads sell more than products. They sell values, “Jean Kilbourne’s work author Lynn Phillips explores the line between films I have seen in a they sell images, they sell concepts of love and is pioneering and consent and coercion in this thought-provoking good long while.” sexuality, of success, and perhaps most important, crucial to the dialogue look at popular culture and the ways real girls Lynn Mikel Brown of normalcy. To a great extent they tell us who of one of the most and women navigate their heterosexual rela- Professor of Education, we are, and who we should be.” underexplored, yet tionships and hookups. Featuring dramatiza- Colby College and Author, Packaging Girlhood —jean kilbourne most powerful, realms tions of interviews that Phillips conducted with of American culture — hundreds of young women, the film examines “A riveting film. Destined This highly anticipated update of Jean Kil- advertising. We owe how the wider culture’s frequently contradictory to be a classic pedagog- bourne’s influential and award-winning Killing her a great debt.” messages about pleasure, danger, agency, and ical tool that will be of Us Softly series, the first in more than a decade, SUSAN FALUDI victimization enter into women’s most intimate much value to teachers takes a fresh look at American advertising and Author, Backlash and relationships with men. The result is a refresh- from a broad range of discovers that the more things have changed, Stiffed ingly candid, and nuanced, look at how young the more they’ve stayed the same. Breaking scholarly backgrounds.” women are forced to grapple with deeply am- down a staggering range of more than 160 ”Every semester, my bivalent cultural attitudes about female sexu- Walter S. DeKeseredy print and television ads, Kilbourne uncovers a new crop of students Professor of Criminology, continue to be shocked ality. Essential for courses that look at popular University of Ontario steady stream of sexist and misogynistic images culture, gender norms, sexuality, and sexual Institute of Technology and messages, laying bare a world of frighten- awake by this film.” violence. ingly thin women in positions of passivity, and Melanie Klein a restrictive code of femininity that works to un- FeministFatale.com Viewer Discretion Advised: Contains sexual imagery & LANGUAGE “At once a wake-up call, asking feminists dermine girls and women in the real world. At College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 to rethink the ways we once provocative and inspiring, Killing Us Softly 4 ”A piece of art crafted Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 frame victimization and stands to challenge yet another generation of over four decades, this High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 students to take advertising seriously, and to film will change, and 2012 | Item #250 | 52 min. | English captions | Preview online power, and a poignant exploration of the real think critically about its relationship to sexism, perhaps even save, lives. dilemmas young women eating disorders, gender violence, and contem- A must-have, even if face as they try to craft porary politics. your library owns previ- meaningful sexual lives.” College/University: DVD $295 | 3-Year Streaming $295 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $370 ous releases.” Amy C. Wilkins Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $236 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $311 SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL Assistant Professor of High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Sociology, University of 2010 | Item #241 | 45 min. | English and Spanish captions | Preview online Colorado

“An important film and teaching tool.” JODY MILLER , Ph.d. Author, Getting Played

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The Line Spin the Bottle Sexual Assault A film by NANCY SCHWARTZMAN Sex, Lies & Alcohol Naming the Unnamed Conspirator Featuring JACKSON KATZ & JEAN KILBOURNE Featuring ANNE MUNCH

In this provocative presentation, Anne Munch, a career prosecutor and longtime advocate for victims of gender violence, examines how cultural attitudes affect the outcomes of rape and sexual assault cases. Using examples from real cases and actual 911 calls, Munch reveals how the involvement of an “unnamed conspira- Filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman chronicles her Drinking is responsible for untold levels of tor” — the complex of myths and stories we decision to confront the man who raped her in destruction and personal trauma on college cam- tell ourselves about sex, gender, power, and this uncompromising and illuminating documen- puses, implicated in everything from accidents responsibility — inevitably shapes the assump- tary that has inspired an ascendant international and property crimes to interpersonal violence tions jurors bring into the courtroom and often movement to empower young leaders in the and sexual assault. But while the seriousness of stacks the odds against victims. fight against sexual and gender-based violence. this problem may be widely understood, there’s College/University: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 Deriving much of its power from Schwartzman’s been little to no consensus about how to deal Comm College: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 refusal to pathologize sex or settle on easy with it. Spin the Bottle points to a potential way High School/Nonprofit: DVD $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 answers, the film challenges young people to out. Starting from the premise that most educa- 2012 | Item #249 | 57 min. | English captions | Preview online complicate their thinking about consent and tional interventions have been no match for the coercion, and to educate themselves and others sheer educational power and influence of popu- about the regressive and frequently contradic- lar culture, media critics Jackson Katz and Jean tory ways that sex and sexual assault get talked Kilbourne take on youth culture’s glamorization War Zone about in the wider culture. of alcohol by directly challenging young people A film by MAGGIE HADLEIGH-WEST to decode — and resist — the alcohol industry’s “That rare personal film that truly becomes uni- A FILM FATALE, INC/HANK LEVINE FILM sophisticated commercial appeals. DVD includes 48 versal.” GmbH PRODUCTION minutes of additional sections and commercials. ANDREA HOLLEY | Deputy Director, Human Rights Watch International Film Festival “A sobering look at the truth behind the happy face that advertising and media put on a con- “An amazing tool for all of us trying to raise temporary social disease. Highly recommended.” awareness, effectively educate, and finally end sexual violence.” VIDEO LIBRARIAN ERIN JEMISON | Colorado Coalition Against Sexual “This video should be required viewing — from Assault What do men’s catcalls and leers mean to a high school to college and beyond.” woman who’s just trying to make her way down “A brave, honest, and gripping film.” FRANK BAKER | Media Educator the street? And why do so many men act this way BYRON HURT | Filmmaker, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & “Presents a fresh new challenge to critically in the first place? Filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh- Rhymes analyze the impact of alcohol on our relation- West decides to get answers to these questions herself. Armed with just a video camera, “Schwartzman blazes a brave trail, encouraging ships, health, and ultimately our future.” Hadleigh-West takes to the streets and confronts us to talk more openly and to think more clearly sALLY LASKEY | Associate Director, National Sexual the men who harass her, asking them point blank about how, where, and why we draw our per- Violence Resource Center why they think it’s okay to treat complete strang- sonal lines of sexual consent.” “An important examination of the main cultural ers in sexual ways. The unforgettable result is 45 Dr. Shira Tarrant | Editor, Men Speak Out: Views on minutes of explosive footage, and a riveting crash Gender, Sex and Power facets related to collegiate high-risk drinking.” Cindy McCue | President, B.R.A.D. Foundation course in why sexism matters. College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 Viewer Discretion: Contains violent SEXUAL LANGUAGE & BRIEF NUDITY Comm College: DVD $95 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 College/University: DVD $275 | 3-Year Streaming $275 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $350 College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $95 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $220 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $295 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 2010 | Item #239 | 24 min. | English captions | Preview online High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2004 | Item #210 | 45 min. | English and Spanish captions | Preview online 1998 | Item #213 | 45 min. | Preview online VHS clearance sale: F13-213-V $10 While supplies last.

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Understanding Hookup Culture Spitting Game What’s Really Happening on College Campuses The College Hookup Culture Featuring PAULA ENGLAND A film by DENICE ANN EVANS

“Sheds some much- needed factual light on a troubling trend in the eyes of many American adults. It does not engage in moralizing, nor should it.” JACK DAVID ELLER, ph.d. Anthropology Review According to a wave of recent news reports and Database high-profile books, hookup culture has replaced traditional dating on college campuses, liberat- “The statistics and data ing young women from patriarchal norms and that England produces radically altering how young people think about are convincing and intimacy and sex. This presentation by Stanford sobering. I would recom- University’s Paula England, a leading researcher mend the video for use in the sociology of gender, investigates whether in the classroom and hookup culture is challenging the old gender community.” Filmmaker Denice Ann Evans draws heavily on order or simply dressing it up in new social forms. “A revealing and pro- MAUREEN C. MCHUGH, ph.d. the voices of students in this timely and eye- vocative look at the College/University: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 Sex Roles: A Journal of opening look at the dangers and consequences Comm College: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 Research pleasures and pitfalls of hookup culture on college campuses. Shed- High School/Nonprofit: DVD $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 of hook-up culture.” 2011 | Item #244 | 30 min. | English captions | Preview online ding much-needed light on a culture steeped Caroline Heldman in alcohol and often shrouded in silence, Evans Associate Professor of supplements student testimony with analysis Politics, Occidental College from experts and health professionals to tease Asking for It out the gender politics at the heart of hook- “Remarkably relevant to up culture and what’s come to be known as college campuses.” The Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent “spitting game” — the finely tuned art of the Onward State A lecture with HARRY BROD pickup that many young men now aspire to master. Along the way, Evans raises urgent and ”Addresses the chal- “An excellent film to clarifying questions about the ways hookup lenging issues of binge bring men into the culture may be setting up a seemingly new and drinking and hookup conversation. [Will] potentially liberating set of sexual rules even as culture head-on.” no doubt spark lively it reinforces traditional gender roles, glamorizes Michelle Isadore, M.Ed. and intense discussion high-risk behavior, and clouds issues of con- Executive Director, SCOPE among students.” sent. The result is a valuable discussion starter, Amy Leisenring, PH.D. an effective teaching tool, and an important ”An eye-opening, Teaching Sociology contribution to emerging efforts to understand student-driven documentary.” This unique look at sexual consent from professor hookup culture in light of persistently high lev- “A useful tool for initiating Harry Brod encourages young people to think els of sexual assault, binge drinking, and gender Janie Lacy, M.S. discussion about con- Licensed Mental Health critically about the assumptions they carry into violence on college campuses. DVD also includes a sent in small groups, Counselor their relationships. Drawing on his training in 35-minute abridged version. classes and other philosophy and ethics, Brod complicates conven- College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 tional ideas about coercion while clarifying the contexts that allow for Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 principle that consent, by definition, can never group discussion.” High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 be taken for granted. Whether he’s exploring Richard A. Sprott, Ph.D. 2009 | Item #251 | 65 min. (full version) 35 min. (abr.) | English captions | Preview online the meaning of “yes” and “no,” or the relationship California State University, East Bay, Contemporary between alcohol and individual responsibility, Sexuality Brod argues that clear thinking and empathy are fundamental to healthy relationships. College/University: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 Comm College: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2010 | Item #243 | 38 min. | English captions | Preview online

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Off the Straight & Further Off the Straight The Price of Pleasure Narrow & Narrow Pornography, Sexuality Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals & New Gay Visibility on Television, & Relationships Television: 1967-1998 1998-2006 A film by CHYNG SUN & MIGUEL PICKER

This breakthrough analysis of LGBT characters on Filmmaker and esteemed professor of communi- television from the late 1960s to the 1990s pro- cation Katherine Sender takes a comprehensive vides an invaluable introduction to representa- and critical look at LGBT representations across a tions of sexuality in mainstream American media. wide cross-section of American media program- “An unusually accessible yet sophisticated educa- ming. Refusing to draw easy conclusions, Sender tional resource.” pays tribute to the emerging variety of LGBT representations while at the same time showing how Pornography may be one of the most popular JOAN M. GARRY | Former Executive Director, GLAAD these images and stories continue to be shaped, and profitable media forms in the world, but College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 Comm College: DVD $95 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 and in many ways policed, by the demands of the there’s been little serious discussion about its High School/Nonprofit: DVD $95 | 7-Day Streaming $50 commercial media system. Along the way, the cultural impact. The Price of Pleasure fills that void. 1998 | Item #207 | 63 min. | Preview online film raises important questions about the rela- Moving beyond tired debates about morality tionship between mainstream media representa- and free speech, the film draws on insights from tions and social and political change. feminist cultural critics, industry producers, per- formers, and consumers to shed much needed Off the Straight & Narrow Box Set College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 Buy both DVDs and save 15%! Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 light on the economics of the porn industry College/University: $445 378.25 | Item #517 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 and the personal and political fallout from porn Comm College/High School/Nonprofit: $245 208.25 | Item #517 2006 | Item #225 | 61 min. | English captions | Preview online culture. Honest and non-judgmental, The Price of Pleasure paints a myth-busting and nuanced portrait of how pleasure and pain, commerce and power, liberty and responsibility have become It Takes a Team! Playing Unfair intertwined in the most intimate area of our lives. DVD contains two versions: An unedited version (including explicit Making Sports Safe for LGBT The Media Image of the pornographic images) and an edited version with blurred images. Athletes & Coaches Female Athlete Co-directed and co-produced by Chyng Sun and Miguel Picker.

A short video and digital curriculum guide from ”An intense, powerful documentary that will open the Women’s Sports Foundation designed to help up painful but necessary discussions about por- coaches, educators, and parents raise awareness nography’s role in shaping our identities, our about the destructive effects of homophobia on relationships, and our culture.” students of all sexual orientations. REBECCA WHISNANT | Director of Women and Gender College/University: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $200 Studies, University of Dayton Comm College: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 More American girls and women play sports High School/Nonprofit: DVD $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 of every kind, at all levels, than ever before. “Sure to provoke heated discussion.” 2004 | Item #222 | 15 min. | Preview online But despite — or perhaps because of — this VIDEO LIBRARIAN renaissance in women’s sports, mainstream media coverage of female athletes continues to “Holds immense possibility for transformative Speak Up! trade in sexism, stereotypes, and homophobia. dialogue.” Improving the Lives of GLBT Youth Examining these patronizing and sexist represen- Lisa Factora-Borchers | Feminist Review tations against the backdrop of women’s actual Speak Up! breaks the silence that too often sur- “Every college campus and community theater athletic achievements, Playing Unfair argues that rounds issues of sexual identity, empowering stu- should screen this film along with a facilitated the persistence of these old narratives is symp- dents to confront homophobia and other forms of tomatic of the fundamental threat women’s ath- discussion.” intolerance and bullying in their schools. leticism and autonomy pose to traditional ideals Judy Norsigian | Executive Director, Our Bodies Ourselves College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 of manhood. DVD includes 35 min. of bonus material. Viewer Discretion Advised: Contains violence, nudity & sexual imagery Comm College: DVD $95 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $95 | 7-Day Streaming $50 College/University: DVD $225 | 3-Year Streaming $225 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $300 College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325

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Beauty Mark Slim Hopes Deadly Persuasion Body Image & the Race for Perfection Advertising & the Obsession The Advertising of Alcohol A film by DIANE ISRAEL, CARLA PRECHT & with Thinness & Tobacco KATHLEEN MAN Gyllenhaal Featuring JEAN KILBOURNE Featuring JEAN KILBOURNE

In this deeply personal film, Diane Israel Jean Kilbourne’s Slim Hopes argues that the Bestselling author and media critic Jean Kilbourne explores American culture’s obsession with thin- stories advertising tells about food, femininity, examines the ever-evolving marketing strategies ness, beauty, and physical perfection. Israel, a and the female body contribute to disordered of the alcohol and tobacco industries. Taking a psychotherapist and former champion triathlete, eating. From ads that glamorize emotional eating close look at how both industries have re-tooled recounts how she grew up feeling intense pres- with catch-phrases like “you can never have too their strategies in the face of rising public health sure to be beautiful and successful — and how, much,” to ads that promote thinness and tell concerns, Kilbourne shows how ad executives as a result, she raced headlong into a devastating women to watch what they eat, Kilbourne takes mobilize a highly sophisticated understanding of and near-fatal spiral of disordered eating and the advertising industry to task for sending gendered identity — and the psychology of addic- obsessive exercising. Featuring commentary young women, in particular, a set of deeply con- tion — to override rational consumer resistance. from Eve Ensler, Paul Campos, Naomi Wolf, and tradictory and unhealthy messages about food. With its close analysis of cigarette and alcohol others, Beauty Mark provides crucial insights into In the process, she offers productive new ways ad examples, Deadly Persuasion is as much a case the relationship between media culture, gender to think about anorexia, bulimia, and other life- study in media literacy as it is a public health tool. norms, and girls’ and women’s health. threatening eating disorders. DVD also includes a 30-minute abridged version.

Red Moon Recovering Bodies The Gloucester 18 Menstruation, Culture & the Overcoming Eating Disorders The Realities of Teen Pregnancy Politics of Gender A film by JOHN MICHAEL WILLIAMS A film by DIANA FABIÁNOVÁ

Analysis from experts and personal insights from When news spread in 2008 that eighteen high school girls from Gloucester, Massachusetts, had With humor and candor, Red Moon takes a fasci- college students guide this illuminating examina- made a pact with one another to become preg- nating and wry look at the absurd and frequently tion of the cultural, medical, and psychological nant, it touched off an international firestorm. dangerous cultural stigmas and superstitions dynamics of disordered eating. Focusing on the But in the tabloid-driven frenzy of moral outrage surrounding women’s menstruation. The film stories of seven college students, the film looks at and speculation that followed, the real story functions as both a mythbusting overview of the clinical considerations involved with anorexia and bulimia, and unpacks the extremely difficult went missing. The Gloucester 18 tells that story. women’s reproductive health, and a piercing Drawing on interviews with the girls involved, cultural analysis of how political struggles have personal dimensions of these illnesses. Along the way, the film offers valuable information their families, high school counselors, health too often played out on the terrain of women’s experts, and doctors, the film puts a human face bodies. As informative as it is empowering, Red about how to recognize the symptoms of eating disorders, and highlights proven strategies for on a stunning fact: that the US has the highest Moon is ideally suited for use in women’s studies teen pregnancy rate in the developed world. and health courses, as well as anthropology, soci- recovery and healing. A useful resource for health educators and for social science courses. College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 ology, and cultural studies. A co-production of Avenue B Comm College: DVD $95 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 and Ubak Producciones. College/University: DVD $175 $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $95 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Comm College: DVD $95 $75 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $195 College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 2010 | Item #242 | 67 min. | English captions | Preview online High School/Nonprofit: DVD $95 $75 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 1997 | Item #302 | 34 min. | Preview online High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2009 | Item #240 | 53 min. | English captions | Preview online

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Joystick Warriors Returning Fire Video Games, Violence & the Culture of Militarism Interventions in Video Game Culture A film by ROGER STAHL “Intriguing, intelligent, and entertaining. A must-see for anyone interested in war, digital culture, and com- puter games.” Rikke Schubart Associate Professor of Media Studies, University There’s no question that war-themed video of Southern Denmark games offer a stunningly realistic experience of ground combat and a fascinating glimpse into “Fast-moving and to the the virtual world of push-button warfare. But point. Highly recom- the exploding popularity of war games has also mended for classroom raised serious concerns about the line between use.” war and entertainment. In Returning Fire, film- MARK J. P. WOLF maker Roger Stahl profiles three tech-savvy Editor, The Video Game anti-war activists who infiltrated a number of Theory Reader For years, there has been widespread specula- “Smart, engaging, and popular war games and in the process sparked tion, but very little consensus, about the rela- thought-provoking, international debate about what it means when “Highly recommended tionship between violent video games and vio- Joystick Warriors deliv- the clinical tools of modern warfare become just for academic and public lence in the real world. Joystick Warriors provides ers the latest research on another form of recreation and escape. libraries.” the clearest account yet of the latest research video games and brings MARGARET M. REED on this issue. Drawing on the insights of media College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 much-needed attention Ouachita Baptist University, Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 scholars, military analysts, combat veterans, and to what happens when Educational Media Reviews High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 gamers themselves, the film trains its sights on people regularly engage Online 2011 | Item #152 | 44 min. | English captions | Preview online the wildly popular genre of first-person shooter in virtual killing. It could games, exploring how the immersive experi- not be more timely or ence they offer links up with the larger stories important.” we tell ourselves as a culture about violence, Nancy Carlsson-Paige Game Over militarism, guns, and manhood. Along the way, Professor Emerita, Lesley it examines the game industry’s longstanding University and Author, The Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games War Play Dilemma working relationship with the US military and Drawing on the work of media scholars and military analysts, this systematic the American gun industry, and offers a riveting “Essential viewing for look at the desensitizing and dehumanizing effects of violent video games examination of the games themselves — show- all. Makes a significant challenges young people to hit pause and think critically about the real- ing how they work to sanitize, glamorize, and contribution to the world consequences of games. normalize violence while cultivating dangerous- urgent discussion about ly regressive attitudes and ideas about mascu- College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 the impact violent enter- Comm College: DVD $95 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 linity and militarism. Features Leigh Alexander, tainment has on society.” High School/Nonprofit: DVD $95 | 7-Day Streaming $50 , , Craig Anderson Andrew Bacevich Nina Hunt- 2000 | Item #205 | 41 min. | English captions | Preview online emann, Sut Jhally, Elizabeth Losh, Matt Payne, Jo Comerford Executive Director, Clive Thompson, and others. National Priorities Project College/University: DVD $275 | 3-Year Streaming $275 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $350 Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $220 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $295 “As a media literacy edu- Militainment, Inc. High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 cator, Joystick Warriors 2013 | Item #175 | Approx. 60 min. | English captions | Preview online is a necessity for my Militarism & Pop Culture classroom. Using pow- A film by ROGER STAHL erful media examples Militainment, Inc. tears through a mesmerizing range of media examples to and expert analysis, the show how the aesthetics of Hollywood movies, video games, and reality TV movie weaves through a have increasingly shaped television news coverage of war — and how war, detailed critical analysis in turn, has emerged as a wildly popular form of entertainment. of the videogame industry and their products.” College/University: DVD $225 | 3-Year Streaming $225 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $300 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $180 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $255 Alexis Ladd, MPH High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Instructor, Wheelock 2007 | Item #135 | 124 min. | English captions | Preview online College and co-founder, Massachusetts Media Literacy Consortium

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Soul Food Junkies Feeding Frenzy African-American Identity & the Politics of Food The Food Industry, Obesity & the Creation of A film by BYRON HURT a Health Crisis

Photo credit: Diliff/ Foter/ CC BY-SA Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt (Hip- “A thoughtful, emo- Over the past three decades, obesity rates in the “Joining Supersize Me Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes) offers a fascinating tionally riveting, and US have more than doubled for children and and King Corn as one exploration of the soul food tradition, its rel- historically grounded tripled for adolescents — and a startling 70% of of the decade’s very evance to black cultural identity, and its con- film. Though rooted in adults are now obese or overweight. The result best food documenta- tinuing popularity despite the known dan- African-American culi- has been a widening epidemic of obesity-related ries, Feeding Frenzy gers of high-fat, high-calorie diets. Inspired nary culture, it speaks health problems, including coronary heart discovers important and, by his father’s lifelong love affair with soul to the universal themes ease, high blood pressure, stroke, and Type 2 dia- as of yet, unchartered food, even in the face of a life-threatening of love, loss, and well- betes. While discussions about this spiraling health territory as it turns a health crisis, Hurt discovers that the relation- being.” crisis have tended to focus on the need for more keen and critical eye on ship between African-Americans and dishes Imani Perry exercise and individual responsibility, Feeding the marketing practices like ribs, grits, and fried chicken is deep-rooted Professor of African Frenzy trains its focus squarely on the respon- of the food industry. A and culturally based. At the same time, he American Studies, sibility of the processed food industry and the must-see!” Princeton University moves beyond matters of culture and individual outmoded government policies it benefits from. Justin Lewis taste to show how the economics of the food “At a time when there It lays bare how taxpayer subsidies designed to Head of the Cardiff School industry have combined with socioeconomic of Journalism, Media, and are so many conflicting feed hungry Americans during the Great Depres- conditions in predominantly black neighbor- Cultural Studies, Cardiff messages about soul sion have enabled the food industry to flood the University hoods to dramatically limit food choices. The food, Hurt has provided market with a rising tide of cheap, addictive, high- result is an absorbing and ultimately inspiring a fabulous critical dis- calorie food products, and offers an engrossing “Powerful, important, look at the cultural politics of food and the com- cussion of the politics, look at the tactics of the multibillion-dollar mar- and damning. Zeroing plex interplay between identity, taste, power, culture, history, and keting machine charged with making sure that in on the corporate and health. Features soul food cooks, historians, economics of this most every one of those surplus calories is consumed. practices of the multi- doctors, and food justice movement activists contentious concept.” Features industry analysts, health experts, and billion-dollar food who are challenging the food industry, creating advertising scholars, including Marion Nestle, industry, this film adds sustainable gardens, and advocating for better Dr. Psyche Williams- Forson Kelly Brownell, Sut Jhally, Brian Wansink, and a fresh and essential supermarkets, more farmers’ markets, and healthier Co-Director of Graduate Michele Simon. perspective to current takes on soul food. A co-production of God Bless the Child Produc- Studies, University of debates about corpo- Maryland College/University: DVD $275 | 3-Year Streaming $275 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $350 tions and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with the rate power, food, and Ford Foundation and National Black Progamming Consortium (NBPC), with Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $220 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $295 funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). “Not just another food High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 health. Watch this film film. A trenchant eth- 2013 | Item #308 | Approx. 60 min. | English captions | Preview online and show it to your College/University: DVD $275 | 3-Year Streaming $275 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $350 Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $220 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $295 nography that unpacks students!” High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 the role of soul food in ERICA SCHARRER 2012 | Item #419 | 64 min. | English captions | Preview online the historical resistance Chair of Communication, of African-Americans to University of Massachusetts- slavery, Jim Crow, and Amherst modern day racism.” ERIC HOLT-GIMéNEZ Executive Director, Institute for Food and Development Policy

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Captive Audience Beyond Good & Evil Mickey Mouse Monopoly Advertising Invades the Classroom Children, Media & Violent Times Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power This tough look at America’s dwindling financial A film by CHYNG SUN & MIGUEL PICKER A film by CHYNG SUN & MIGUEL PICKER commitment to public education zeroes in on the rise of corporate-sponsored curricula, branded textbooks, and advertising on school grounds, and makes a compelling case that commercial interests are undermining the traditional mission of public schools.

College/University: DVD $250 $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 Filmmakers Chyng Sun and Miguel Picker Mickey Mouse Monopoly offers an innocence- Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 examine how stories about good and evil shape shattering look at the less-than-wonderful world High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2003 | Item #105 | 45 min. | English captions | Preview online children’s perceptions of the world. The film of Disney. Surveying a range of beloved Disney places special emphasis on the political and classics, filmmakers Chyng Sun and Miguel ideological implications of children’s entertain- Picker uncover a parade of gender, racial, and ment in the wake of 9/11, drawing fascinating ethnic stereotypes, and examine these represen- Remote Control parallels between the level of discourse in kids’ tations against the backdrop of Disney’s bottom- Children, Media Consumption & programming and the oversimplified rhetoric line interests as a global media conglomerate. the Changing American Family that dominated the political landscape during By pulling back the curtain on Disney’s virtuous the run-up to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. public image, the film challenges viewers to According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the The film’s main concern is how such narratives think critically about the social, political, and average American child spends over 40 hours function to justify war, rationalize violence, and cultural effects of even the most cherished forms a week consuming media, the equivalent of a dehumanize entire populations of people. of popular entertainment. full-time job. Remote Control puts a human face on these statistical findings, exploring the media College/University: DVD $275 $225 | 3-Year Streaming $225 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $300 College/University: DVD $275 | 3-Year Streaming $275 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $350 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $220 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $295 habits of two families and examining the perva- Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $180 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $255 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 siveness of media in our lives. 2003 | Item #103 | 37 min. | English and Spanish captions | Preview online 2001 | Item #112 | 52 min. | English captions | Preview online College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 Comm College: DVD $75 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $75 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2007 | Item #145 | 38 min. | English captions | Preview online Reviving Ophelia Girls: Moving Beyond What a Girl Wants Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls Myth Featuring MARY PIPHER Produced by SUSAN MACMILLAN Produced by ELIZABETH MASSIE/ CHC PRODUCTIONS

In this adaptation of her influential bestselling Susan Macmillan’s compelling documentary book, Mary Pipher draws on her clinical training explores the tensions between our most cher- In this eye-opening look at the effects of commer- in psychology and anthropology to examine the ished myths of girlhood and the difficult life cial culture on the formation of children’s identities, developmental challenges teenage girls face in a choices girls face in the real world. The film gives eleven girls from diverse backgrounds speak can- world saturated with media. Her ultimate goal is special attention to how girls have been forced didly about sex, body image, and the pressures they to help empower girls to free themselves from the to navigate changing expectations in the wake of face as they come of age in a celebrity-worshipping, toxic influences and pressures of popular culture. the women’s movement on the one hand, and a sex-obsessed media culture. commercial culture that trades increasingly in the “One of the most valuable videos for teachers, sexualization of young girls on the other. Along “Presents, in teen girls’ voices, a glimpse of how parents, and young people to see about media the way, it weaves the voices of a diverse group the media diminishes the value of young women.” and girls… It empowers those who see it in my of girls with analysis from leading experts and Jane Baer-Leighton | Former English Department workshops.” researchers in the field, including Lynn Phillips, Chair, Amherst Regional High School Bob McCannon | Media Educator Joan Jacobs Brumberg, and Deborah Tolman. College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 College/University: DVD $275 $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 College/University: DVD $250 $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 Comm College: DVD $75 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 Comm College: DVD $75 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 Comm College: DVD $125 $75 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $75 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $75 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 $75 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2001 | Item #214 | 33 min. | English captions | Preview online 1998 | Item #303 | 38 min. | English captions | Preview online 2004 | Item #231 | 28 min. | English captions | Preview online

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Sext Up KIDS Consuming Kids How Children are Becoming Hypersexualized The Commercialization of Childhood A film by MAUREEN PALMER, TIMOTHY M. HOGAN & RICK LEGUERRIER

The powder keg that is porn culture has exploded “Powerful and heart- With virtually no government oversight or public “As a professor of media in the lives of North American children. From breaking, this is an outcry, the multibillion-dollar youth marketing and children’s culture, thongs and padded bras for 9-year-old girls to invaluable resource for industry has used the latest advances in psychol- and as a parent, this is “sexting,” Internet porn, and unfiltered social parents, teachers, pro- ogy, anthropology, and neuroscience to trans- the film I’ve been media, kids today are bombarded with commer- fessors, health care pro- form American children into one of the most waiting for.” cial sexual appeals like never before. Award-win- fessionals, and anyone powerful and profitable consumer demographics Lynn phillips, PH.D. ning documentary filmmaker Maureen Palmer concerned about the in the world. American kids, targeted from birth Author, Flirting with Danger (Leaving Bountiful, How to Divorce and Not Wreck well-being of children with sales pitches for everything from Hollywood “Watching this movie the Kids) explores what this radical transforma- and teenagers.” merchandise and junk food to iPods, cell phones, will open the eyes of tion of the culture means for young people, par- and the family car, now influence an estimated Rosalind Wiseman everyone who cares ents, and traditional definitions of childhood. Author, Queen Bees & $700 billion in annual consumer spending. Con- about children to the The film brings us face-to-face with parents and Wannabees suming Kids traces the evolution and impact of disturbing new reali- teachers struggling to raise and educate our this unprecedented phenomenon. Drawing on “A sobering and must- ties of our consumer kids in a toxic cultural environment, with teens the insights of children’s health experts, media see look at how an culture.” and pre-teens who talk openly about the routine critics, and industry insiders, it blows the lid off role sex plays in their lives, and with researchers onslaught of sexualized the youth marketing industry’s stealth tactics TIM KASSER, ph.d. who have been tracking how the accelerating media and marketing Author, The High Price of and explores the effects of consumerism on the Materialism pressure to be sexy — and sexual — is changing is undermining the imaginative lives of children. Features commen- kids’ behavior and undermining their health. The healthy development tary from Enola Aird, Dr. Michael Brody, Nancy ”Should be viewed by result is a highly accessible examination of the of girls. Highly recom- Carlsson-Paige, Josh Golin, Diane Levin, Su- anyone who has kids myriad ways our increasingly sexed-up commer- mended.” san Linn, Dr. Alvin Poussaint, Dr. Michael Rich, or cares about them; in cial media culture is fundamentally reshaping JOSH GOLIN Juliet Schor, and other prominent children’s other words, everyone.” childhood and youth culture. Directed by Maureen Associate Director, Campaign advocates. Michele Simon, J.D., M.P.H. Palmer, and produced by Rick LeGuerrier and Timothy M. Hogan of for a Commercial-Free Author, Appetite for Profit Dream Street Pictures in association with CBC. Childhood College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 “A riveting and compelling Viewer Discretion Advised: Contains sexual imagery & LANGUAGE “Straightforward, power- High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 exposé.” College/University: DVD $275 | 3-Year Streaming $275 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $350 ful, and chilling.” 2008 | Item #134 | 67 min. | English captions | Preview online Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $220 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $295 MARION NESTLE StePHen Hinshaw High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Professor of Nutrition, NYU Professor of Psychology, UC 2012 | Item #248 | 43 min. | English captions | Preview online Berkeley and Author, The “My all-time favorite Triple Bind video exploring the ”An honest, accurate, and negative aspects of sensitive portrayal of the advertising in all ven- sexualization of girlhood.” ues and on all media Jennifer R. Curry platforms.” Assistant Professor of Stuart Fischoff, Ph.D. Counselor Education, Senior Editor, Journal of Louisiana State University Media Psychology

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Big Bucks, Big Pharma Refuge Protection Marketing Disease & A Film about Darfur Masculinity and Condom Use in Pushing Drugs A film by ALEXANDRE TRUDEAU & Sub-Saharan Africa Narrated by AMY GOODMAN JONATHAN PEDNEAULT A film by JILL LEWIS, FRANCOIS VERSTER & NEIL BRANDT

This chilling investigation of the pharmaceutical This enraging and heartbreaking documentary HIV/AIDS has ravaged entire populations in sub- industry’s marketing tactics exposes how drug from Canadian student Jonathan Pedneault Saharan Africa. Yet educational efforts to prevent companies have exploited, and in some cases and filmmaker Alexandre Trudeau tells the the acceleration of the epidemic continue to invented, illness to stoke anxieties and maximize story of the pair’s trip to Darfur to investigate clash with traditional cultural attitudes that view profits. The film has two main concerns: Big reports of genocide. As Pedneault and Trudeau protected sex as unmanly. Protection provides a Pharma’s relentless targeting of doctors with clandestinely make their way into the heart of fascinating look at the origins of these attitudes, brand promotions and enticements, and the rise the Sudanese war zone with a group of rebels, and examines how they are being kept alive by of direct-to-consumer advertising that bypasses they come upon refugees fighting for water, a set of hypermasculine myths that extol risk- doctors and transforms potentially dangerous NGOs struggling to get food to the starving and taking as an emblem of strength, virility, and prescription drugs into objects of glamor and people battered by civil war and incomprehen- potency. An eye-opening exploration of what it desire. In the end, the film raises serious ques- sible violence stumbling into camps on the edge will take to make real and transformative change tions about advertising ethics and the priorities of survival. The result is a story of remarkable and eradicate HIV/AIDS once and for all. of profit-driven health industries. courage and unfathomable despair. College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2009 | Item #173 | 52 min. | English captions | Preview online 2006 | Item #224 | 46 min. | English captions | Preview online 2009 | Item #144 | 52 min. | English captions | Preview online Freedom of Expression This Land is Our Land The Diamond Empire Resistance & Repression in the The Fight to Reclaim the Commons A film by JANINE ROBERTS Age of Intellectual Property Featuring DAVID BOLLIER Narrated by NAOMI KLEIN

Empowered by an anti-government ideology This fascinating documentary explores how a that sees little value in the preservation of the baseless advertising slogan invented in 1984 by In 1998, Kembrew McLeod made headlines when common wealth, transnational corporations have Madison Avenue executives continues to shape he successfully trademarked the phrase “freedom been laying waste to our national commons for our most intimate rituals and romantic ideals. of expression” to call attention to the extremes of more than three decades, buying up everything Targeting the myth that “diamonds are forever,” intellectual property law. But in the years since, from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast the film examines how a single South African as fewer and fewer corporations have come to airwaves. This Land is Our Land provides a power- family came to dominate the global trade in dominate the media landscape, copyright law ful rebuttal to this virulent strain of market fun- diamonds, convert something valueless into one has only become more restrictive. In this pro- damentalism, tracing the idea of the commons of the most coveted commodities in history, and vocative film, McLeod continues his fight against back to the founding of America, and detailing change the very way we think about courtship, the corporate chokehold on creative expression, how a bold new movement is waging a potent marriage, and love. An eye-opening examina- translating the abstractions of copyright law into counteroffensive against the corporate assault on tion of unfair global trade practices and how an engaging story about corporate power and our common wealth. advertising works its way into the very core of the power of art. our identities. College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2010 | Item #146 | 46 min. | English captions | Preview online High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2007 | Item #127 | 61 min. | English captions | Preview online 1994 | Item #136 | 102 min. | English captions | Preview online

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Fire in the Blood Google & the World Brain A Tale of Medicine, Monopoly & Malice The Audacious Attempt to Control Human Knowledge A film by DYLAN MOHAN GRAY A film by BEN LEWIS

Fire in the Blood tells the true story of how Western “ In 1937, the science fiction writer H. G. Wells “Endlessly fascinating pharmaceutical companies and governments imagined a “World Brain” containing all of the and engaging. It’s prob- blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs in Africa A shocking documentary world’s knowledge, accessible to all people, ably the best documen- and the global south in the 1990s — leading about how big Western that would be “so compact in its material form tary you’ll see all year.” to the preventable deaths of at least ten mil- pharmaceutical compa- and so gigantic in its scope and possible influ- Lucas McNelly lion people — and how a remarkable coalition nies blocked access to ence” that it could transcend even nation states The Huffington Post of people came together to stop them. Shot low-cost anti-AIDS drugs, and governments. Seventy years later, Google on four continents and featuring contributions “ causing a holocaust of set about realizing Wells’ vision, launching a from global figures such as Bill Clinton, Des- 10 million deaths.” massive project to scan millions of books from A fair, interesting, and mond Tutu, and Joseph Stiglitz, the film offers university library collections — and triggering eye-opening true story. devastating insights into the lethal decision- Kate Muir The Times a fierce backlash in the process. When it was Anyone interested in making process that led to this humanitarian discovered that over half of the first ten million the future, Google, catastrophe. And it shows how, if not for the “Quietly devastating. books Google scanned were still in copyright, books, Artificial passion and tactical ingenuity of a group of A testament to human authors from around the world joined together Intelligence, where sci- courageous and relentless activists, millions of decency and a damning to wage a fierce legal battle against the Inter- ence fiction collides with more people would have died. The result is a indictment of laissez- net giant, culminating in a dramatic courtroom reality, or a culturally- gripping look at corporate greed, government faire capitalism” showdown in 2011. In gripping detail, Google & relevant story well told, collusion, the cutthroat economics of medi- Philip French the World Brain tells the fascinating story of this should see this docu- cine and healthcare, and the power of ordinary The Observer/The Guardian complicated struggle over intellectual property mentary gem.” people to make meaningful change on a global and access to human knowledge, offering cru- Scott Cleland scale. A Sparkwater India Production. DVD includes the feature- “Put it to the top of your cial insights into broader debates surrounding The Precursor Blog length documentary, as well as an abridged version shortened for must-see list.” data-mining and privacy, downloading and use in the classroom. TOM ROSTON copyright, fair use, freedom and surveillance. ”A masterful documentary.” PBS Doc Soup College/University: DVD $295 | 3-Year Streaming $295 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $370 A Polar Star Films & BLTV Production. DVD includes the feature- JULIE FISCHER Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $236 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $311 length documentary, as well as an abridged version shortened for Indiewire High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 “Brilliant. A real-life David use in the classroom. 2013 | Item #170 | 85 min. (full version) 57 min. (abr.) | English captions | Preview online and Goliath story. An College/University: DVD $350 | 3-Year Streaming $350 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $425 “A whip-smart amazing documentary Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $280 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $355 examination.” and a story that really High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 KENNETH TURAN needed to be told.” 2013 | Item #171 | 88 min. (full version) 60 min. (abr.) | English captions | Preview online Critics Notebook, Zoe Ball Los Angeles Times BBC Radio “Offers convincing reasons to pay more attention to Google’s utopian schemes. JOHN DEFORE The Hollywood Reporter

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In Debt We Trust No Logo Shop ‘Til You Drop America Before the Bubble Bursts Brands, Globalization, Resistance The Crisis of Consumerism A film by DANNY SCHECHTER Featuring NAOMI KLEIN A film by GENE BROCKHOFF

This hard-hitting documentary from Emmy In this captivating adaptation of her influential This fast-paced tour of the psychological and Award-winning producer Danny Schechter book, author and activist Naomi Klein investi- ecological terrain of American consumer culture explores why so many Americans, young gates the rise of international brands and the brings us face-to-face with mass consumerism and people in particular, are being strangled by grassroots anti-corporate campaigns they have the limits of the American Dream. Filmmaker Gene consumer debt. Burrowing deep into the poli- inspired. Breaking down the complexities of glo- Brockhoff looks behind the seductive dream- tics and economics of American debt culture, balization in accessible language, Klein challenges scape of advertising and public relations to reveal Schechter argues that the mall has replaced viewers, especially young people, to consider an unsustainable cultural mythology that has the factory as America’s dominant economic how global economic practices are threatening extolled the virtues of infinite growth and defined engine, exposes a system operating on borrowed public space, consumer choice, and meaningful happiness through the lens of consumerism. money and borrowed time, and clarifies why so work. The result is a lively introduction to some of Includes commentary from authors Peter many college students are being forced to pay the most pressing issues confronting the global Whybrow, Juliet B. Schor, and James Twitchell; exorbitant interest on loans while graduating, economy, and to the kinds of direct-action protest simplicity gurus Cecile Andrews and Duane on average, tens of thousands of dollars in debt. movements that are now sweeping the world. Elgin; and photographic artist Chris Jordan. A Globalvision Production, A Danny Schechter Dissection. College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2003 | Item #115 | 40 min. | English, French & Spanish captions | Preview online 2010 | Item #148 | 52 min. | English captions | Preview online 2006 | Item #133 | 52 min. | English captions | Preview online

The Overspent American Advertising & the End of Default Why We Want What We Don’t Need the World The Student Loan Doumentary Featuring JULIET SCHOR Featuring SUT JHALLY A film by SERGE BAKALIAN & AURORA MENEGHELLO

Juliet Schor’s analysis of the cultural founda- Communications scholar Sut Jhally surveys the Just a few years after the subprime mortgage crisis, tions of consumer debt is as timely today as ever. devastating fallout from rapacious American there are ominous signs that the student loan mar- Focusing on what she calls “the new consum- consumerism. Moving beyond a formal critique ket is on the verge of collapsing, yet another casu- erism,” a national phenomenon of aspirational of individual ads, Jhally offers a broad-based alty of predatory lending practices. Default brings spending on upscale items by people lacking political-economic analysis of advertising as a this perilous situation into sharp relief, chronicling upscale means, Schor examines how the com- cumulative cultural force, showing how it breeds the stories of borrowers who find themselves in mercial media system has cultivated an irrational self-interested values and unsustainable levels of the paralyzing predicament of having to repay and unsustainable consumer mindset. The film consumption. At once sobering and inspiring, the far more than what they borrowed — with no offers a prescient look at the forces that brought film challenges young people to think critically bankruptcy protection, and no recourse under the the American economy to the brink of collapse, about the commercial images that saturate their law. The result is at once an accessible analysis of a and a powerful analysis of how consumerism lives, and to evaluate their responsibilities as mounting economic crisis, and a cautionary tale for students. A Krotala Films Production. continues to shape American identity and the democratic citizens in a consumer society. American Dream. College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 Comm College: DVD $95 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $95 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 2012 | Item #159 | 27 min. | English captions | Preview online High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 1997 | Item #101 | 46 min. | English and Spanish captions | Preview online 2004 | Item #116 | 33 min. | English and Spanish captions | Preview online

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Capitalism Hits the Fan The New Economics 101 The Next American Richard Wolff on the Economic True Wealth in the New Economy Revolution Meltdown A lecture by JULIET SCHOR Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism Featuring GAR ALPEROVITZ

Renowned economist and professor Rick Wolff offers a masterful explanation of the recent economic crisis. With astounding clarity, Wolff shows how the collapse of the financial markets emanated from seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself; traces the origins of the mortgage meltdown to the 1970s, when stagnant wages plunged American workers into a 40-year spiral of bor- Economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor rowing and debt; and concludes that only radi- offers a refreshingly clear analysis of the ecological cal systematic change will be enough to fend and social costs of mass consumerism, and a off far greater economic catastrophes in the passionate call to arms for radically rethinking While there’s been no shortage of commentary future. The result is nothing short of a master our relationship to consumer goods. Citing new about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stag- class in economics. developments in economic theory, social analysis, and ecological design, and real-world examples nation and chronic unemployment to unchecked College/University: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 of people and places putting these cutting-edge corporate and state power and growing inequality, Comm College: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 ideas into practice, Schor makes a compelling analyses that offer practical, politically viable High School/Nonprofit: DVD $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 solutions to these problems have been few and 2008 | Item #139 | 57 min. | English captions | Preview online case that preserving dwindling natural resources and fostering economic security will require far between. This illustrated presentation from replacing old modes of debt-financed growth distinguished historian and political economist with a new paradigm of sustainability that is Gar Alperovitz is a rare and stunning exception. less about scarcity and sacrifice than about new Pointing to efforts already under way in thou- Plunder terms of plenitude. Along the way, she points sands of communities across the US, from co-ops The Crime of Our Time to the growing number of new lifestyles and and community land trusts to municipal, state, social forms emerging across the country and and federal initiatives that promote entrepre- A film by DANNY SCHECHTER around the world that are replacing the dead- neurship and sustainability, Alperovitz marshals end, work-and-spend cycle with the abundant years of research to show how bottom-up strate- and infinitely renewable resources of time, cre- gies can work to check monopolistic corporate power, democratize wealth, and empower com- ativity, and community. DVD also includes a 34-minute abridged version. munities. The result is a highly accessible look at the current economy and a common-sense ”For those who still think we have to choose roadmap for building a system more in sync with between a healthy economy and a healthy envi- American values. This gripping account of the 2008 financial crisis ronment, watch this video! Juliet Schor lays out sheds light on the unregulated theft and fraud an inspiring, realistic, common sense approach “Alperovitz develops nothing less than a program that exploded the housing market, drained to having both — and having way more fun in for deep democratic renewal in the US, building retirement accounts, and tanked the American the process.” from a wide range of exciting work already being economy. Ranging from the byzantine world Annie Leonard | Author, The Story of Stuff done by people throughout the country.” of trillion-dollar hedge funds to the complicity Robert POLLIN | Professor of Economics, University of the mainstream press, the film provides one “Smart and provocative ideas in an engaging and of University of Massachusetts-Amherst of the clearest accounts yet of a white-collar accessible presentation. Highly recommended “Refreshing and illuminating.” crime wave that radically altered our economic for all who want to be inspired!” and political landscape. Features economists and Dr. Ian Bruff | Lecturer in European Politics, Dr. Helen Scharber | Assistant Professor of University of Manchester industry insiders, including convicted felon Sam Economics, Hampshire College Antar and Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman. A College/University: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 College/University: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 Globalvision Production, A Danny Schechter Dissection. 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“Stuart Hall is our most acute student of race and communication (and many other matters as well), and a passionate and engaging lecturer.” — James W. Carey | Author, Communication as Culture

Stuart Hall: Personally Speaking Stuart Hall: An Intimate Conversation with Stuart Hall Representation & the Media A film by MIKE DIBB & MAYA JAGGI With an introduction by SUT JHALLY Stuart Hall, whose pioneering scholarship helped Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended forge the foundations of cultural studies, reflects on meditation on representation. Moving beyond the his life and the trajectory of his work in this fascinating accuracy or inaccuracy of specific representations, interview directed by documentary filmmaker Mike Hall argues that the process of representation itself Dibb. Hall talks about his migration from Jamaica constitutes the very world it aims to represent, and to England, his immersion in left-wing politics in explores how the shared language of a culture, its London, the influence of Raymond Williams and E.P. signs and images, provides a conceptual roadmap Thompson on his thought, and the evolution of the that gives meaning to the world rather than simply early classic texts of cultural studies. He also weighs reflecting it. Hall’s concern throughout is the central- in on the current global economic crisis and the elec- ity of culture to the shaping of our collective perception of Barack Obama. An invaluable introduction to tions, and how the dynamics of media representa- Hall, and to cultural studies more generally. tion reproduce forms of symbolic power. College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 Comm College: DVD $75 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 Comm College: DVD $75 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $75 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $75 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2009 | Item #416 | 4 hrs. 18 min. | English captions | Preview online 1997 | Item #409 | 55 min. | English captions | Preview online Stuart Hall: Stuart Hall: Race, the Floating Signifier The Origins of Cultural Studies With an introduction by SUT JHALLY Stuart Hall offers an accessible and clarifying analysis In this re-mastered lecture from 1989, Stuart Hall of the social construction of race and racial differ- provides an extraordinarily clear summary of the ori- ence. He explores how variations in people’s appear- gins of cultural studies. Hall discusses the founding ances come to be mistaken for essential differences. of cultural studies at the University of Birmingham, He traces how these misinterpretations function the field’s baseline concern with issues of symbolic both to express and to reproduce dominant power representation and power, and how cultural studies relations. And he argues for more rigorous engage- ultimately gained an institutional foothold at the ments with identity, representation, and contingency “frontiers of intellectual and academic life by testing capable of acknowledging and respecting difference the fine line between intellectual rigor and social without essentializing it. An ideal introduction to relevance.” An excellent introduction to Hall’s work, how cultural studies intervenes in debates about and to the broader social, political, and economic race, representation, identity, and power. 2-disc set includes: A classroom edition (62 concerns that have shaped cultural studies. min.) and a reference edition (85 min.). The reference edition features a full lecture that Hall delivered at College/University: DVD $95 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 Goldsmith’s College in London, as well as the 20 min. question-and-answer session that followed. Comm College: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Comm College: DVD $75 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 2006 | Item #414 | 40 min. | English captions | Preview online High School/Nonprofit: DVD $75 | 7-Day Streaming $50 1997 | Item #407 | 85 min. (reference ed.) | 62 min. (classroom ed.) | English captions | Preview online

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The Mean World Rich Media, The Myth of the Syndrome Poor Democracy Liberal Media Media Violence & the Cultivation Featuring ROBERT McCHESNEY The Propaganda Model of News With MARK CRISPIN MILLER of Fear Featuring NOAM CHOMSKY, EDWARD Based on the work of GEORGE GERBNER HERMAN & JUSTIN LEWIS

In this adaptation of his influential book, media If you think US news has a liberal bias, this scholar Robert McChesney examines the impact assumption-shattering film from Noam Chomsky, of media consolidation on journalism and democ- Edward Herman, and Justin Lewis will have you racy. He argues that far from delivering on its thinking again. Making the common-sense case promise of more choice and greater diversity, that mainstream news media are more commit- corporate consolidation has in fact undermined ted to their bottom-line interests as large corpo- competition, producing media content that’s rations than to left-wing advocacy, they dissect The Mean World Syndrome, based on the ground- high on sensationalism, low on information, and how news content gets shaped within a narrow, breaking work of the late media scholar George detrimental to a functioning democracy. With and ultimately conservative, institutional frame Gerbner, offers a timely and clear-eyed take on additional commentary from Mark Crispin Miller, that marginalizes the progressive perspectives the origins of some of our most irrational and un- the film provides an accessible introduction to of a broad cross-section of the American public. relenting fears. Taking dead aim at a commercial how media ownership structures shape content. The film, made before the rise of Fox News, has media system that thrives on violence, stereo- College/University: DVD $225 | 3-Year Streaming $225 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $300 become only more relevant with time. types, and the cultivation of anxiety, the film ar- Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $180 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $255 College/University: DVD $195 $115 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 gues that the more television people watch, the High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Comm College: DVD $125 $75 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $195 more likely they are to be insecure and afraid of 2003 | Item #118 | 30 min. | English and Spanish captions | Preview online High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 $75 | 7-Day Streaming $50 others — and shows how these media-induced 1997 | Item #114 | 60 min. | Preview online fears and anxieties provide fertile ground for intolerance, extremism, and a paranoid style of politics that threatens basic democratic values. Culture, Politics & The result is a fascinating and accessible intro- Class Dismissed duction to debates about media violence and How TV Frames the Working Class Pedagogy media effects, and a powerful classroom tool for Narrated by ED ASNER A Conversation with Henry Giroux helping students make sense of our increasingly intense and fractious political climate. Features commentary from George Gerbner, and narra- tion from University of Massachusetts Communi- cation professor Michael Morgan.

“A superb update of MEF’s earlier films with George Gerbner. Powerful and emotionally moving.” While a number of educational films have exam- “An active citizen,” Henry Giroux observes in this Bill Yousman, Ph.D. | Author, Prime Time Prisons on ined media representations of race, gender, and provocative interview, is “somebody who has US TV: Representation of Incarceration sexuality, there have been far fewer about class. the capacity not only to understand and engage the world, but to transform it when necessary.” “Smart and timely.” Class Dismissed fills that void. Guided by nar- rator Ed Asner, the film looks at the distorted The prolific educational theorist speaks passion- Jack David Eller, PH.D. | Anthropology Review Database and one-dimensional ways working class people ately about the thin line between education, civic “It rocked my world.” and issues have been portrayed on American engagement, and social justice; talks candidly about the influence of his friend and mentor Lenore Skenazy | Author, Free-Range Kids television over time — when they have been portrayed at all — and examines the ideological Paulo Freire; and advocates for a pedagogy of College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 assumptions that have shaped this history of liberation that challenges inequality and authori- Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 misrepresentation and marginalization. Includes tarianism. Essential for education and cultural High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 commentary from Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara studies courses. 2010 | Item #143 | 51 min. | English captions | Preview online Ehrenreich, Herman Gray, and Pepi Leistyna. College/University: DVD $95 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 Comm College: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2006 | Item #130 | 50 min. | English captions | Preview online 2005 | Item #411 | 62 min. | English and Spanish captions | Preview online

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Edward Said: Live: From Bethlehem Occupation 101 On Orientalism What Do You Really Know About Voices of the Silenced Majority Palestine? A film by Abdallah Omeish & Sufyan Omeish

In this adaptation of his paradigm-shifting book, Live: From Bethlehem tells the fascinating story The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is widely viewed in Edward Said examines the origins and evolution of a group of independent journalists working in the US as one of the most complicated geopoliti- of Western attitudes toward the Middle East. Said one of the world’s most troubled and conflict-torn cal disputes in the world. But there are also signs shows how perceptions of the Middle East as an regions. Through the eyes of reporters, producers, that Americans are unfamiliar with one of the core exotic land full of villains and terrorists are deeply and photographers on the ground, the film offers flashpoints of the conflict: the exact nature of rooted in the Western imagination, and argues an intimate portrait of the struggles and successes Israel’s ongoing military occupation of Palestinian that this caricatured cultural heritage continues to of the Bethlehem-based Ma’an News Agency, the land. Occupation 101 lays out the basic facts blind too many Europeans and Americans to the only independent news network in the Palestinian of the occupation in vivid and heart-wrenching complexity and diversity of the region. Territories and an increasingly prominent source detail, offering a crystal-clear and myth-shattering of information in the wider Middle East. The result history of Israel’s systematic dispossession of “No one studying the relations between the met- is a fascinating and nuanced look at how news Palestinians from their land. Features Middle East ropolitan West and the decolonizing world can gets produced — and how ordinary Palestinians scholars, journalists, religious leaders, and human- ignore Said’s work.” live — under Israeli military occupation. itarian workers. The New York Times Book Review College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 College/University: DVD $225 | 3-Year Streaming $225 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $300 Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $180 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $255 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2009 | Item #142 | 36 min. | English captions | Preview online 2006 | Item #174 | 90 min. | English captions | Preview online 1998 | Item #403 | 40 min. | English captions | Preview online Arna’s Children Edward Said: The Peace, Propaganda & How the Children of a Palestinian Theater Group Got Involved in the Myth of ‘The Clash of the Promised Land Intifada Civilizations’ US Media & the Israeli- A film by JULIANO MER-KHAMIS Palestinian Conflict Filmmaker Juliano Mer-Khamis tells the remarkable story of a small theater group of Palestinian children in a Jenin refugee camp on the West Bank. The result is as tragic as it is inspiring – as much a tribute to the power of art as it is a devastating indictment of the Israeli military occupation.

Edward Said challenges the persistent ideologi- College/University: DVD $120 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 Comm College: DVD $65 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $185 This devastating look at American media cover- cal assumption that many of the world’s conflicts High School/Nonprofit: DVD $65 | 7-Day Streaming $50 can be explained as contests between fundamen- age of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict exposes how 2004 | Item #131 | 84 min. | English captions | Preview online tally different civilizations. He argues that this pro-Israel pressure groups, US strategic interests, perspective overlooks both the primary role of and a narrow set of deep-seated cultural atti- state policy, and the internal diversity of cultures. tudes have combined to minimize the brutality of Life in Occupied College/University: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 Israel’s illegal military occupation and dehumanize Comm College: DVD $90 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $195 Palestinians. With its focus on the ideological Palestine High School/Nonprofit: DVD $90 | 7-Day Streaming $50 assumptions and political pressures that continue Eyewitness Stories & Photos 1998 | Item #404 | 60 min. | Preview online to shape, and in many cases compromise, US A film by ANNA BALTZER media coverage of the world, Peace, Propaganda Anna Baltzer, the Jewish-American granddaughter & the Promised Land remains as relevant as ever for of Holocaust refugees and a volunteer with the courses in journalism, media studies, and commu- Edward Said Box Set International Women’s Peace Service in the West nication. DVD includes 8+ hrs of addt’l footage. Bank, provides an accessible introduction to the Buy Both DVDs & Save 20% 95 College/University: DVD $250 $19. | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 95 College/University: DVD $350 $280 | Comm College: DVD $215 $150 Comm College: DVD $150 $19. | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $140 95 College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $215 $150 | Item #515 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 $19. | 7-Day Streaming $50 2003 | Item #117 | 80 min. | Arabic, English, French, Hebrew & Spanish captions | Preview online Comm College: DVD $95 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $95 | 7-Day Streaming $50 1997 | Item #154 | 66 min. | Preview online

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The War Around Us How to Start a Revolution A film by Abdallah Omeish The Blueprint for Change that is Rocking the World A film by RUARIDH ARROW

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” “Gripping. Deeply moving. Gene Sharp hardly seems like one of the “Emotionally engrossing, By far, the finest, most world’s most dangerous men. White-haired and intellectually compelling, The War Around Us tells the absorbing true accomplished record of soft-spoken, the 83-year-old professor mostly and as fresh and up-to- story of the only two international journalists one of the most heinous keeps to himself, spending much of his time date as tomorrow’s on the ground in Gaza during Israel’s bombard- massacres of the 21st in his small Boston home reading, writing, and headlines.” tending to his orchid garden. But to the world’s ment and invasion of the troubled Palestinian century.” DAVID P. BARASH most brutal dictators, Professor Sharp’s ideas territory over a three-work period in 2008-9. Joseph Fahim Professor of Psychology, have proven catastrophic. In this fascinating University of Washington Award-winning filmmaker Abdallah Omeish Variety Arabia (Occupation 101) chronicles the experiences of new film, director Ruaridh Arrow details how “A vital conversation Al Jazeera’s Cairo-born, Arab-American Ayman ”One of the hardest an obscure list of nonviolent actions authored starter and educational Mohyeldin and Arab-British Sherine Tadros hitting documentaries by Sharp in 1973 has served as a blueprint for anti-authoritarian revolts everywhere from tool for a world awash as they report from Gaza City throughout the I’ve seen in years, Eastern Europe and the Balkans to the Arab with violence.” devastating assault. With never-before-seen Abdallah Omeish’s Spring. As much about the substance of Sharp’s footage and gripping personal testimonies, the The War Around Us The Huffington Post “198 Methods of Nonviolent Action” as it is film bears witness to Israel’s ongoing siege of deserves not only distri- about the courageous democratic rebels who “A powerful, moving, and Gaza in the wake of its withdrawal in 2005, and bution so audiences can have made these methods their own, How to beautifully produced pays tribute to the power of journalism — and see it, but also an Oscar Start a Revolution bears witness to the power of film.” friendship — under conditions of enormous nomination.” nonviolent struggle, and shows how one person Robert L. Holmes conflict and stress. The result is a deeply human Ed Rampell of conscience can quietly influence the lives of Professor Emeritus, glimpse into wartime reporting and life in one Jesther Entertainment millions of people. Features commentary from University of Rochester of the most besieged places on earth. Essential Sharp’s close ally Retired US Army Colonel “Should be required viewing viewing for courses in journalism, media, and “Powerful. Robert Helvey, Sharp himself, and many of the not only in courses on communication. A 3rd Eye Filmworks Production. Deeply moving.” revolutionary leaders his work has inspired. Sarah Irving nonviolence and peace College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 The Electronic Intifada College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 studies, but really in any Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 course that examines “Brings one of humanity’s High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2013 | Item #169 | 67 min. | English captions | Preview online 2011 | Item #155 | 82 min. (full) | 52 min. (abr.) | English captions | Preview online political change and pre- greatest injustices to scribes remedies for social the big screen.” justice.” Sami Kishawi Michael Nojeim Sixteen Minutes to Palestine Assoc. Professor of Political Science, Prairie View A&M University and Author, Gandhi and King: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance

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Just Do It #ReGENERATION A Tale of Modern-Day Outlaws The Politics of Apathy & Activism A film by EMILY JAMES Narrated by RYAN GOSLING A film by PHILLIP MONTGOMERY

This powerful, funny, and inspiring new docu- ”Fun and bold, with Ryan Gosling narrates this engrossing film “A sociological look at mentary from filmmaker Emily James tells the endearing, vibrant about social activism, the forces that galva- why the world is the thrilling story of a remarkable group of envi- characters.” nized the Occupy movement, and how a new way it is, why it seems ronmental activists as they wage a series of Little White Lies generation of young people is coming to terms to be spiraling out of direct-action campaigns across Great Britain and with a rapidly changing world. The film skill- control, and if there is Europe. The main subjects are five young British “An astonishing movie fully weaves commentary from some of the any hope to change it.” activists whose serious commitment to envi- that goes behind the country’s leading political and social analysts Reynolda Film Festival ronmental justice and nonviolent resistance is scenes of climate activism with personal observations from a collective of rivaled only by their wicked sense of humor and during 2009.” young musicians, a tight-knit group of subur- “Recommended.” satire. The film brings us inside the group’s spirited AMELIA GREGORY ban high-school students, and a young conser- Educational Media planning sessions, and takes us on a wild ride Amelia’s Magazine vative family, providing a nuanced look at the Reviews Online as they clash with police, blockade factories, oc- myriad challenges facing the next generation “Delivers a critical one- cupy coal power stations, and glue themselves to “Puts a human face of Americans. The result is as personal as it is two punch by discussing factory floors. With its deeply human take on the on [activists] whose political, as much a portrait of the contempo- how the media has principles of civil disobedience and the pragmat- actions are, depending rary political scene as of a generation of young depoliticized and atom- ics of political activism, Just Do It is an excellent on your standpoint, people finding their way in uncertain times. ized young people resource for educators looking to inspire discus- courageous, empowering, Features Noam Chomsky, the late Howard while forcing them into sion about the kinds of nonviolent movements inexcusable, humourous, Zinn, Adbusters’ Kalle Lasn, Andrew Bacev- employment with longer that are now sweeping the globe. Especially suit- or frightening.” ich, Amy Goodman, Talib Kweli, Sut Jhally, hours than previous gen- able for courses in political science, government, MATILDA LEE and music from STS9. erations at stagnating or environmental ethics, and sociology, and for Ecologist College/University: DVD $225 | 3-Year Streaming $225 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $300 shrinking pay.” campus event programming dedicated to social ”Seriously topical but Comm College: DVD $95 | 3-Year Streaming $180 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $255 Troy Belford issues. High School/Nonprofit: DVD $95 | 7-Day Streaming $50 never so serious that Anthropology Review 2012 | Item #160 | 80 min. | English captions | Preview online Database College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 it gets caught up in Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 polemic. Rousing stuff.” High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 ”Stands as a rallying 2012 | Item #156 | 51 min. | English captions | Preview online DAVID HUGHES cry for the new ‘Me Empire Online Generation’ to rediscover a sense of community ”A smart, funny, adre- and to fight back against nalized portrait of 21st being turned into wage- century activism.” slave drones controlled by DANNY LEIGH shadowy figures on high.” The Guardian MOVIELINE

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Mic Check American Autumn Documentary Shorts from the Occupy Movement An OccuDoc Curated by NICK SHIMKIN A film by DENNIS TRAINOR JR.

When thousands of people concerned about “If you want to know In this gripping first-hand account of the Occu- “Calm and smart, offset- growing economic inequality gathered in what the Occupy move- py Wall Street movement, filmmaker and former ting its stridency with Zuccotti Park in New York City on September 17, ment is all about, and high school teacher Dennis Trainor Jr. takes an discussion, music, even 2011, there was little indication that they would what its ‘demands’ are, inside look at how a New York-based protest humor, while issuing a fundamentally transform American political watch these films.” against corporate greed and economic inequal- call to arms.” debate and ignite a full-scale national and global NAOMI KLEIN ity in the autumn of 2011 sparked a full-scale NEW YORK TIMES protest movement. But within a year, the Occupy Author, The Shock Doctrine street revolution that continues to send shock Wall Street protestors had done just that. This waves through the American political system. “A provocative social powerful collection of short films, made by “An arresting and powerful Trainor weaves commentary from organizers, critique and relentless Occupy protestors on the ground, tells the story film for anyone hoping activists, and leading progressive thinkers with piece of engaged jour- of the movement in real time. While the films to better understand nalism.” this crucially important riveting street-level dispatches from New York’s range in length from just one to ten minutes, Matthew Bolton, Ph.D. political moment.” Zuccotti Park, Washington DC, and beyond, their combined force is spellbinding. Together providing a passionate and clear-eyed look at a Co-editor, Occupying Simon Critchley Political Science: The Occupy they show how a fledgling movement came movement founded on the core belief that the out of nowhere to challenge Wall Street’s rapa- Professor of Philosophy, Wall Street Movement from The New School American political and economic system should New York to the World cious and predatory practices, force economic attack growing inequality and place human inequality and corporate greed onto the main- “Mic Check stands out as need above corporate greed. “This necessary and infor- stream political agenda, and capture the imagi- one of the most compel- mative documentary nation of the world. The result is a fascinating Narrated by Trainor, the documentary features ling contributions on looks at the faces behind and multifaceted portrait of one of the defining filmmaker Michael Moore, Dr. Cornel West Occupy so far.” the Occupy Wall Street political struggles of our time. (Princeton University), comic/author/activist Lee Derek Seidman movement... it is an Visiting Assistant Professor Camp, journalists Nathan Schneider (Harper’s, The films were curated by Nick Shimkin, a film of American Studies, Trinity The Nation), Naomi Klein (The Nation) and more. effective, and heartfelt, programmer and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. College clarion call.” College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 NEW YORK DAILY NEWS “As vibrant, diverse, and Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 Comm College: DVD $95 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 momentous as the High School/Nonprofit: DVD $95 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2012 | Item #164 | 58 min. | English captions | Preview online “American Autumn movement itself.” 2012 | Item #157 | 100 min. | English captions | Preview online impresses where most docs Dr. Heather Gautney disappoint, expanding Author, Protests and Organization in the its scope without short- Alternative Globalization Era changing the wider subjects it covers.” VARIETY

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The New Great Game Blind Spot A Burning Question The Decline of the West & the Peak Oil & the Coming Global Crisis Propaganda & the Denial of Struggle for Middle Eastern Oil A film by ADOLFO DORING Climate Change A film by GEORGE MATTA & ALEXANDRE TRUDEAU A film by PAULA KEHOE

After centuries of Western domination, the wa- Director Adolfo Doring’s haunting portrait of This clarifying look at the debate surrounding terways of the Middle East — along with the America’s oil-fueled excesses explores the rela- global warming explores the striking disconnect logic of empire itself — are being contested in tionship between the energy we use, the way we between the relatively clear-cut concerns of the unprecedented ways. Pirates are roaming sea run our economy, and multiplying threats that world’s most prominent scientists and the maze lanes. Local powers are threatening chokepoints. now confront the environmental health and sta- of speculation, rhetorical posturing, and the out- And the people are rising up to bring their au- bility of the planet. The film’s main focus is how right misinformation that attaches to this issue thoritarian rulers down. This timely documen- decades of greed and wishful thinking have con- whenever it’s taken up by politicians, PR special- fronted us with an impossible choice: continue tary zeroes in on how disparate events occur- ists, and political pundits. Mixing a localized fo- to burn fossil fuels and witness the collapse of ring on land in such places as Iran, Libya, Saudia cus on Ireland with insights from scientists and our ecology, or radically curb consumption and Arabia, Egypt, and Yemen, and at sea in the Gulf witness the collapse of our economy. Refusing to leaders from around the world, the film serves as of Aden, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea, all whitewash this double bind, Blind Spot urges us both a primer on climate science and an analysis expose the slow dismantling of the old order, to think seriously about a pragmatic way out of of media framing. and the emergence of a new geopolitical game. our current energy dilemma. College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 Comm College: DVD $95 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 Comm College: DVD $95 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $95 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $95 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2012 | Item #161 | 53 min. | English captions | Preview online 2012 | Item #163 | 54 min. | English captions | Preview online 2009 | Item #147 | 54 min. | English captions | Preview online

Toxic Sludge is Good Agrofuels Blood & Oil for You Starving People, Fueling Greed Featuring MICHAEL T. KLARE The Public Relations Industry Unspun A film by LOREN FEINSTEIN & MATT FEINSTEIN

Narrated by AMY GOODMAN Filmmakers Loren and Matt Feinstein provide America’s runaway petroleum habit is at the This eye-opening adaptation of John Stauber an eye-opening account of the downside of al- breaking point. From massive oil spills to gas and Sheldon Rampton’s bestselling exposé of ternative, food-based fuel sources. Delving deep price spikes to intractable wars in the Middle East, the public relations industry investigates how PR into the world of agrofuels and monocrops, they there are signs everywhere that our longstand- operatives shape the allegedly unbiased informa- explore how the increasingly common practice of ing strategy of extracting as much oil as possible tion the public gets from mainstream news media. diverting food crops to the industrial production from wherever we can get it is on a collision Stauber, Mark Crispin Miller, Stuart Ewen, and of cellulose-based fuels is devastating indigenous course with reality. Michael T. Klare’s Blood & Oil a host of other leading media experts and cultural communities, undermining small farmers, and en- lays bare the astonishing history of how we got critics examine the history of the public relations dangering the environment across Latin America. here, and argues that global conflict, market vola- tility, and environmental destruction will only industry, survey its favored tools and tactics, and Turning to the promise of the future, they also intensify if we don’t radically curb consumption show how political and business elites have enlisted show how grassroots communities are developing and demilitarize our energy policy. A fascinating the services of PR professionals to mold public better, cleaner alternatives. primer on the crucial relationship between oil opinion, sell war, and manage corporate crises. College/University: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 and US foreign policy. College/University: DVD $225 $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 Comm College: DVD $75 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $195 College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $75 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2012 | Item #162 | 28 min. | English captions | Preview online High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2010 | Item #119 | 45 min. | English and Spanish captions | Preview online 2008 | Item #124 | 52 min. | English captions | Preview online

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Do the Math The Race for What’s Left Bill McKibben & the Fight Over Climate Change The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources A film by KELLY NYKS & JARED P. SCOTT An illustrated lecture with MICHAEL T. KLARE

The math is simple. To avoid climate catastro- “Watch the film, do the Renowned energy expert Michael T. Klare pro- “Michael Klare, with his phe, we have to limit carbon dioxide emissions math, sign up for the vides an invaluable account of the new and customary clarity of into the atmosphere to 350 parts per million or struggle, and link it to increasingly dangerous competition for the expression, takes the below. The only problem? We’re presently at 400 the struggles you are world’s dwindling natural resources. Arguing reader through a whistle parts per million — and climbing. In November already involved in. Our that the world is facing an unprecedented crisis stop tour of energy 2012, bestselling author and environmental ac- common future depends of resource depletion — one that goes beyond (in)security. His conclusion tivist Bill McKibben and 350.org, the organiza- on it.” “peak oil” to encompass shortages of coal and is sensible and sobering.” tion he founded, hit the road to raise awareness Marc Brodine uranium, copper and lithium, water, and arable Klaus Dodds of this terrifying math and build a movement to People’s World land — Klare shows how the desperate hunt for Professor of Geopolitics, challenge the fossil fuel industry. Do the Math raw materials is forcing governments and cor- Royal Holloway, University takes us inside that tour, following McKibben “Moving and incredibly porations to stake their claim in ever more dan- of London as he delivers an astonishingly clear breakdown motivating.” gerous and remote areas that present grave po- “Packed with information of the facts — and the stakes — to more than litical and environmental risks. Citing mounting Taryn Oakley about the dire conse- 25,000 people at sold-out shows in 21 cities Instructor of Environmental tensions between the US and China over control quences of extractive across the country. The film serves as a much- Science, Portland of resources in the Asia-Pacific region, volatile Community College needed correction to industry spin, and shows local border disputes that raise the likelihood industries and resource how an unprecedented global movement is of military confrontation, and the destructive competition. Appropriate “Think of Do The Math rising up to keep CO2 emissions down. Highly environmental consequences of tar sands oil ex- for multiple audiences, as a sort of grass- recommended for courses that look at climate traction and fracking, Klare argues that we need from the classroom to roots sequel to An science, geography, environmental policy, to radically alter our consumption patterns and the community hall to corporate influence, the costs of mass con- Inconvenient Truth.” build alternative energy systems before it’s too the corridors of power.” Good.is sumerism and consumption, and social change late. Betsy HartmanN movements. A PS Pictures Production. Director of Population and “Makes a compelling College/University: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 Development Program, College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 case about how it is Comm College: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 Hampshire College Comm College: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 time to stop playing High School/Nonprofit: DVD $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 | 7-Day Streaming $50 defense for the environ- 2013 | Item #167 | 40 min. | English captions | Preview online “A clear and troubling 2013 | Item #172 | 100 min. | English captions | Preview online ment; we had better overview of the ‘scramble’ start playing hard for the earth’s dwin- offense.” dling resources. This video is an excellent New.Westminster.In.My. Back.yard Blog primer for educators, students, and indeed all people concerned with the future of the planet.” Bret Gustafson Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis

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The Billionaires’ Hijacking Catastrophe War Made Easy Tea Party 9/11, Fear & the Selling of How Presidents & Pundits Keep How Corporate America is Faking American Empire Spinning Us to Death a Grassroots Revolution Featuring NORMAN SOLOMON A film by TAKI OLDHAM

This award-winning documentary provides a dev- This critically acclaimed look at American war astating look at how neoconservatives exploited propaganda exhumes five decades of remarkable the tragedy of 9/11 to enact a pre-existing policy archival footage to show how presidents from agenda, increase military spending, and project both parties have relied on fear-driven political American power globally by means of force — all spin and craven media complicity to sell a succes- with the stunning complicity of the American news sion of wars to the American people. The result is media. With its sustained focus on government an invaluable introduction to how propaganda, propaganda, media passivity, and the political uses public relations, and perception management of fear, the film’s analysis continues to resonate. function in democratic societies. Essential view- Shortly after Barack Obama and Congressional Includes bonus interviews with Norman Mailer, ing for courses in media studies, political science, Democrats swept to power promising a new Thomas Frank, George Lakoff, Naomi Klein, journalism, and US history. Narrated by Sean era of hope and change, a citizens protest Howard Zinn, and others on how 9/11 continues Penn, and based on the bestselling book by movement emerged threatening to derail their to shape electoral politics. renowned media analyst Norman Solomon. agenda. The Tea Party was widely hailed as an College/University: DVD $195 $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 exercise in grassroots democracy. But others Comm College: DVD $125 $75 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $195 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 saw it as a classic example of “astroturfing,” a High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 $75 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 public relations charade designed to mimic a 2006 | Item #126 | 76 min. | English captions | Preview online 2007 | Item #125 | 72 min. | English captions | Preview online populist revolt. Curious to find out for himself, Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham decided to travel into the heart of the movement. The result is this astonishing look at how moneyed elites Beyond the Frame Independent Media in have been exploiting legitimate voter outrage Alternative Perspectives on the to advance their own narrow interests. Oldham a Time of War takes us inside town hall meetings where angry War on Terrorism Featuring AMY GOODMAN voters parrot insurance industry PR; finds “citizen groups” working to debunk climate change that are funded by big oil companies; and peels back a movement’s down-home image to discover a coordinated network of right-wing shadow groups funded by the likes of billionaire ideologues Charles and David Koch. At once a record This DVD compilation features stand-alone inter- Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman delivers a of our political moment, and a stunning case views with prominent scholars and activists on powerful indictment of corporate media’s cover- study in the power of public relations. the subject of mainstream media’s coverage of age of the US invasion of Iraq. In stunning detail, Goodman shows how the US news media glori- ”Brilliant.” the “war on terrorism.” The compilation is struc- GEORGE MONBIOT | The Guardian tured to allow educators to bring the voices of fied combat and downplayed casualties, directly these cultural analysts directly into their class- contributing to a pro-war climate that silenced ”Essential viewing.” rooms. Includes interviews with Noam Chomsky democratic debate about why we went to war in DAVID SUZUKI | Author & Environmentalist Kevin Danaher, Naomi Klein, Manning the first place. Marable, Vandana Shiva, and others. ”Part scathing critique, part call to action... Argues ”Taki Oldham’s documentary is journalism “A must for communications, modern world history, that dialogue is vital to a healthy democracy.” at its best. social studies, and journalism classrooms!” TOP DOCUMENTARY FILMS WENDELL POTTER | Author, Deadly Spin Rob Williams | Associate Faculty, Communication & College/University: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $200 College/University: DVD $250 | 3-Year Streaming $250 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $325 Creative Media, Champlain College Comm College: DVD $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 Comm College: DVD $125 | 3-Year Streaming $200 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $275 College/University: DVD $95 $50 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $200 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Comm College: DVD $95 $50 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $170 2003 | Item #110 | 35 min. | Preview online 2011 | Item #153 | 54 min. | English captions | Preview online High School/Nonprofit: DVD $95 $50 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2004 | Item #104 | 2 hrs 26 min. | Preview online

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Constructing Public The Hollywood Abe Osheroff Opinion Librarian One Foot in the Grave, How Politicians & the Media A Look at Librarians Through Film the Other Still Dancing A film by ROBERT JENSEN & NADEEM UDDIN Misrepresent the Public A film by OVERDUE PRODUCTIONS

In a fascinating inversion of conventional politi- They have more cardholders than VISA, more For most of Abe Osheroff’s 92 years, he was cal wisdom, media critic Justin Lewis argues customers than Amazon, and more outlets than an activist. Whether he was on the front lines that the political polls don’t simply reflect what McDonald’s. They are America’s librarians. And of the Spanish Civil War, walking the picket Americans think, but actually work to construct filmmaker Ann Siedl wanted to tell their story. lines of the US labor movement, marching for public opinion itself. Surveying a range of polling Weaving scenes from Hollywood films with civil rights in Mississippi, or working for human data, Lewis argues that Americans are far more insights from working librarians, Siedl offers an rights in Nicaragua, Osheroff threw himself into progressive on a range of issues than is widely entertaining look at what librarians actually do, the political arena with rare energy and enthu- believed, and shows how political and media and why it matters. Along the way, she provides siasm. In this affecting film, Osheroff reflects on elites have selectively interpreted polls to promote an energetic take on everything from censorship the meaning of activism, the reasons he took militarism, advance neoliberal economic poli- and the science of archiving to the relationship political action, and his lifetime commitment to cies, and sustain an electoral system with a built- between public libraries and democratic citizen- “radical humanism.” Osheroff’s wisdom resonates in bias against the interests of ordinary people. ship. The film will appeal to librarians, bibliophiles, with special force today, as new waves of social College/University: DVD $150 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 and anybody else who’s ever checked out a book. protest sweep the globe. Comm College: DVD $75 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $195 College/University: DVD $275 $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 College/University: DVD $195 | 3-Year Streaming $195 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $270 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $75 | 7-Day Streaming $50 Comm College: DVD $150 $95 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 Comm College: DVD $95 | 3-Year Streaming $156 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $231 2001 | Item #106 | 32 min. | Preview online High School/Nonprofit: DVD $150 $95 | 7-Day Streaming $50 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $95 | 7-Day Streaming $50 2007 | Item #140 | 96 min. | English, Spanish and French captions | Preview online 2009 | Item #141 | 46 min. | English captions | Preview online

Money for Nothing Writing About Media “I can’t think of a better project for a writing class DVD Compilation & Curriculum Kit or a better way to launch a liberal arts education Behind the Business of Pop Music in a democratic society.” Narrated by THURSTON MOORE Developed by PETER ELBOW MARJORIE ROEMER This unique program was created to help teach- Director of Writing, Rhode Island College ers across a range of disciplines integrate MEF “The idea here is to use popular culture to moti- videos more seamlessly into their classrooms. vate students towards an analytic approach to Geared to college and upper-level high school media, developing a sense of critical interpreta- writing and composition teachers, it includes a double-DVD set with more than four hours of clips tion that would — in turn — lead to better aca- Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore narrates this film selected from contemporary media and a range demic writing skills. Recommended.” about the corrosive influence of big money and Tofhey ME Fhave films, more and acardholders downloadable than writing VISA ,curricu more - customers than Amazon,VIDEO and LIBRARIAN more outlets than media consolidation on artistic expression and the MclumD onald’s.developed They in are consultation America’s librarians.with composition And filmmaker Ann Siedl wanted to tell their story. Weaving American music industry. Drawing on insights from scenestheorist from Peter Hollywood Elbow. Tfilmshe curriculum with insights features from working librarians, Siedl offers an entertaining look musicians and industry experts, the film exam- atexercises, what librarians assignment actually sequences, do, and andwhy handoutsit matters. Along the way, she provides an energetic take on ines how corporate conglomerates have seized everythingdesigned explicitly from censorship to help studentsand the sciencerespond of to archiving to the relationship between public libraries control of record companies and radio stations, andthe democraticDVDs and in citizenship. the process The refine film willtheir appeal critical to librarians, bibliophiles, and anybody else who’s ever and explores how popular music has become checkedthinking outand a writing book. skills. But the clips can also integrated into the broader commercial landscape. “Abe stirring used ontribute. their Recommended.” own in a range of classes that College/University: DVD $225 $125 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 VIDEOlook at LIBRARIAN media and social issues. Comm College: DVD $125 $75 | 3-Year Streaming $120 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $195 College/University: DVD $115 | 3-Year Streaming $150 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $225 High School/Nonprofit: DVD $125 $75 | 7-Day Streaming $50 College/University:Comm College: DVD DVD $65 $275 | 3-Year $195 Streaming | 3-Year $120Streaming | 3-Year $XXX Streaming | 3-Year + Streaming DVD $185 + DVD $XXX 2001 | Item #113 | 48 min. | English captions | Preview online CommHigh School/Nonprofit: College: DVD $150 D VD $95 $65 | 3-Year | 7-Day Streaming Streaming $XXX $50 | 3-Year Streaming + DVD $XXX High2008 School/Nonprofit: | Item #129 | 4+ D hrs.VD $150 | English $95 captions| 7-Day Streaming | Preview $50online 2007 | Item #140 | 96 min. | English, Spanish and French captions | Preview online

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