Media Education Foundation Movies

  • 2022
    Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL

    Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL

    Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL

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    Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politics before Colin Kaepernick and...

    Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
  • 2016
    The Occupation of the American Mind

    The Occupation of the American Mind

    The Occupation of the American Mind

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    Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a...

    The Occupation of the American Mind
  • 1997
    Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

    Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

    Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

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    Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the accuracy or inaccuracy of specific representations,...

    Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
  • 2010
    The Codes of Gender

    The Codes of Gender

    The Codes of Gender

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    Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial...

    The Codes of Gender
  • 2010
    The Mean World Syndrome

    The Mean World Syndrome

    The Mean World Syndrome

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    For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these...

    The Mean World Syndrome
  • 2002
    Playing Unfair

    Playing Unfair

    Playing Unfair

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    It has been 30 years since Title IX legislation granted women equal playing time, but the male-dominated world of sports journalism has yet to catch...

    Playing Unfair
  • 2013
    Tough Guise 2

    Tough Guise 2

    Tough Guise 2

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    In this highly anticipated update of the influential and widely acclaimed Tough Guise, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist...

    Tough Guise 2
  • 1997
    bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation

    bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation

    bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation

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    bell hooks is one of America's most accessible public intellectuals. In this two-part video, extensively illustrated with many of the images under...

    bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
  • 2018
    The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots

    The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots

    The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots

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    The #MeToo movement has shined much-needed light on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse and created unprecedented demand for gender...

    The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots
  • 2023
    Beyond the Straight and Narrow

    Beyond the Straight and Narrow

    Beyond the Straight and Narrow

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    How did the rise of LGBTQ visibility, political progress, and digital technologies in the 2000s come together to offer the abundance of complex queer...

    Beyond the Straight and Narrow
  • 2000
    Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women

    Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women

    Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women

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    Jean Kilbourne's pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning Killing us Softly...

    Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
  • 2018
    Digital Disconnect

    Digital Disconnect

    Digital Disconnect

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    In this era of Facebook privacy breaches, "fake news" and filter bubbles, this essential film trains its sights on the relationship between the...

    Digital Disconnect
  • 2020
    The Man Card

    The Man Card

    The Man Card

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    For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have repeatedly criticized the left for playing “the race card” and “the woman...

    The Man Card
  • 2000
    Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial

    Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial

    Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial

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    Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of studios and their owners, rather than...

    Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
  • 2000
    Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games

    Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games

    Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games

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    Video and computer games represent a $6 billion a year industry. One out of every ten households in American owns a Sony Playstation. Children who...

    Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
  • 2012
    Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships

    Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships

    Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships

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    Social and developmental psychologist and author Lynn Phillips explores the line between consent and coercion in this thought-provoking look at...

    Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
  • 2003
    Wrestling with Manhood

    Wrestling with Manhood

    Wrestling with Manhood

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    Wrestling with Manhood is the first educational program to pay attention to the enormous popularity of professional wrestling among male youth,...

    Wrestling with Manhood
  • 2018
    Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse

    Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse

    Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse

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    In this highly anticipated sequel to his groundbreaking, ADVERTISING AND THE END OF THE WORLD, media scholar Sut Jhally explores the devastating...

    Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
  • 2003
    Rich Media, Poor Democracy

    Rich Media, Poor Democracy

    Rich Media, Poor Democracy

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    Robert McChesney lays the blame for the US's current state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from...

    Rich Media, Poor Democracy
  • 2013
    White Like Me

    White Like Me

    White Like Me

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    In White Like Me, anti-racist educator Tim Wise explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege.

    White Like Me