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MILITAINMENT INC: Militarism and Pop Culture
This program offers a fascinating, disturbing, and timely glimpse into the militarization of American popular culture,
examining how U.S. news coverage has come to resemble Hollywood film, video games, and "reality television" in its
glamorization of war. Mobilizing an astonishing range of media examples - from news anchors' idolatry of military machinery
to the impact of government propaganda on war reporting - the film asks: How has war taken its place in the culture as an
entertainment spectacle? And how does presenting war as entertainment affect the ability of citizens to evaluate the
necessity and real human costs of military action? The film is broken down into nine sections, each between 10 and 20
minutes in length, allowing for in-depth classroom analysis of individual elements of this wide-ranging phenomenon.
#11393/0685 124 minutes 2007 $159.95 (Colleges/Universities $289.95)
WAR MADE EASY: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
Narrated by Sean Penn, this program brings to the screen Norman Solomon's insightful analysis of the strategies used by
administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war from Vietnam to Iraq. By familiarizing
viewers with the techniques of war propaganda, War Made Easy encourages us to think critically about the messages put out
by today's spin doctors - messages which are designed to promote and prolong a policy of militarism under the guise of the
"war on terror." Based on the book by the same title. #11183/0685 72 minutes 2007 $159.95 Colleges/Universities $249.95)
THE MEDIA LITERACY SERIES
The average person is exposed to more than 3,000 commercial messages each day - and probably will not recognize almost 80
percent of them. Use this timely and informative two-part series to deepen your understanding of media's influence and to
train students to critically analyze media messages before accepting them.
TEACHING MEDIA LITERACY: Asking Questions - This program explains how to teach media literacy through the application
of three basic facts and five key analytical questions that can be applied to any media message. This simple and highly
effective approach is reinforced by insights and observations provided by important figures in the media literacy movement,
including Elizabeth Thoman, Tessa Jolls, and Jeff Share, of the Center for Media Literacy. Fight passive consumerism and
promote critical thinking with Teaching Media Literacy. Previously sold individually. 31 minutes
UNDERSTANDING MEDIA LITERACY - TV and radio commercials, Web sites and banner ads, magazine ads, pop songs, photos,
and even news articles and textbooks: all of them are sending messages to influence the reader/viewer/listener. How do
they grab the attention? What are they selling - a product or service? a lifestyle? an ideology? - and why? Would a different
media consumer interpret the message differently? This program raises more questions than it answers, which is the whole
point: to prompt students to question, question, question the messages they are bombarded with daily. Savvy media
consumers aren't born; they're made, and this program is an excellent tool for shaping the classroom dialogue. 35 minutes
#11600/0635 Two Programs 2007 $139.95 each or Series $249.95
SEXUAL AND RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN THE MEDIA
Sexual and racial stereotypes are constantly being redefined and reinforced on TV and in movies, in magazines and on the
Web, in video games - practically everywhere. They frame perceptions, reinforce prejudices, and promote a fear of the
"other". This series scrutinizes the media in order to both expose and understand common sources of bias and the intentions
behind them. Expert commentary is provided by Carolyn Kitch, director of the Mass Media and Communication program at
Temple University; Oscar Gandy, professor emeritus at the Annenberg School for Communication; and NPR's Bob Garfield,
cohost of On the Media. The series consists of two programs:
SEXUAL STEREOTYPES IN THE MEDIA
RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN THE MEDIA
Categorizing others is a part of human nature, and even
Although demeaning and offensive racial stereotypes were
as infants we divide the world into two groups "male and pervasive in popular media of every kind during the 20th
female" to help organize our reality. But when these
century, most observers would agree that the media is
stereotypes are used to make assumptions about a
much more sensitive to representations of race today. But
person's character and value, they become gender bias or the pernicious effects of that stereotyping live on in the
outright sexism. This program illustrates some of the
new racism arising from disparities in the treatment of
commercial, cultural, psychological, and sociological
stories involving whites and people of color in a ratings-
forces that have shaped sexual stereotypes in the media, driven news market, media-enhanced isolationism as a
such as demographic segmentation and the selling of
result of narrowcasting, and other sources. This program
gender, the myths of alluring femininity and rugged
examines the relationship between mass media and social
masculinity, Jungian personality archetypes, consensus
constructions of race from political and economic
reality, stereotype threat, the hegemonic forces of
perspectives while looking at the effects media can have
agenda-setting and mainstreaming, body image
dysfunctions, and the theory of the male gaze. 38 minutes
on audiences. 43 minutes
#11488/0635 Two programs 2008 $189.95 each or Series $359.95
WRITING ABOUT MEDIA with Peter Elbow (DVD & Curriculum Kit)
Combining focused writing instruction with a media literacy perspective, this program serves as an invaluable tool for college
and upper-level high school writing and composition teachers. This package includes a double DVD set featuring more than
four hours of clips selected from a range of Media Education Foundation's films, and a detailed curriculum containing dozens
of exercises developed in consultation with composition theorist Peter Elbow, acclaimed author of Writing with Power.
Peter Elbow is Professor of English and director of the writing program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
#11887/0685 50 minutes 2008 $89.95 (Colleges/Universities $149.95)
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