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Media & Gender

Media & Gender


BRO CODE, THE: HOW CONTEMPORARY CULTURE CREATES SEXIST MEN

By Thomas Keith The Bro Code, filmmaker Thomas Keith takes aim at the forces in male culture that condition boys and men to dehumanize and disrespect women. Keith breaks down a range of contemporary media forms that are saturated with sexism -- movies and music videos that glamorize misogyny; pornography that trades in the brutalization of women; comedy routines that make fun of sexual assault; and a slate of men's magazines and cable TV shows whose sole purpose is to revel in reactionary myths of American manhood. The message he uncovers in virtually every corner of our entertainment culture is clear: It's not only normal -- but cool -- for boys and men to control and humiliate women. By showing how there's nothing natural or inevitable about this mentality, and by setting it against the terrible reality of men's violence against women in the real world, The Bro Code challenges young people to step up and fight back against the idea that being a real man means disrespecting women.

Featuring interviews with Michael Kimmel, Robert Jensen, Shira Tarrant, J.W. Wiley, Douglas Rushkoff, Eric Anderson, and Neal King.

Reviews
  • "An excellent tool for classroom discussion about male socialization and the damaging impact of media and pornography on men and the women around them." - Paul Kivel, Author, Men's Work, Boys Will Be Men, and the Young Men's Work curriculum

  • "Filmmaker Tom Keith's powerful indictment of contemporary culture carries within it an undercurrent of optimism. Despite its horrific portrait of men behaving badly -- and dangerously -- the days of "Jersey Shore" manhood are numbered. When The Bro Code is screened on campuses, more male filmgoers than you might imagine will crack the code, reclaiming both healthy masculinity and their full humanity." - Rob Okun | Editor, Voice Male Magazine

  • "Tom Keith's The Bro Code is a vital look at what makes us men tick and how we can find our way through the maze of modern masculinity to an identity which is balanced, healthy, and fulfilling." - Thomas Matlock | Founder, The Good Men Project

    Item no.: WA01060120
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 58 minutes
    Copyright: 2011
    Price: USD 250.00

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    PURITY MYTH, THE: THE VIRGINITY MOVEMENT'S WAR AGAINST WOMEN

    By Jessica Valenti

    Throughout history, boys have been taught that the things that make them men -- good men -- are transcendent ideals like courage and honesty and integrity, while girls have been led to believe that a woman's moral compass lies somewhere between her legs, literally. In this alternately hilarious and enraging new film adaptation of her bestselling book, The Purity Myth, pioneering feminist blogger Jessica Valenti shows how this moral double standard is alive and well today thanks to a well-funded coalition of virginity-obsessed conservatives bent on vilifying feminism and rolling back women's rights.

    Valenti trains her sights on what she calls the "virginity movement" -- an unholy alliance of evangelical Christians, political activists, and policy wonks who have been spreading irrational fears about women's sexuality to shape government policy, public education, and even popular culture in their own traditionalist image. And whether her focus is the exploding popularity of dad-and-daughter "purity balls," or the millions of dollars American taxpayers shell out each year for failed abstinence-only programs, Valenti's baseline target is the same: the myth that the worth of a woman depends on what she does or does not do sexually. In the end, The Purity Myth shows why commercial culture's hypersexualization of women is too serious a problem to be left to ideologues, arguing that the antidote to our pornified culture is not a set of reactionary policies that replace one form of sexism with another, but embracing women's autonomy and power.

    Reviews
  • "Fierce and funny...In-your-face feminism is what Valenti is about." - Antonia Zerbisias | The Toronto Star

  • "Valenti shines a bright light on the cultural misogyny that -- yes, even today -- keep women struggling for the simple justice of owning our bodies, embracing our sexuality, and fully assuming the right to own our own lives." - Gloria Feldt | Author, The War on Choice | Planned Parenthood Federation of America

    Item no.: JB01060123
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: Approx. 60 minutes
    Copyright: 2011
    Price: USD 250.00

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    UNDERSTANDING HOOKUP CULTURE: WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES

    Directed by Sut Jhally

    When it comes to intimacy and sex, young people today are apparently doing away with the old rules of romance and cutting straight to the chase. If recent reports are to be believed, the rise of hookup culture on college campuses is in the process of killing off dating and courtship, radically altering some of our most basic assumptions about heterosexual sex and gender. But for all the speculation, there's been little beyond anecdotal evidence to back any of these claims up. This lecture by Stanford University's Paula England, a leading researcher in the sociology of gender, aims to clarify what's actually going on. England mobilizes a wealth of data to begin to chart whether the phenomenon of hooking up represents some kind of fundamental change, or whether we're simply seeing age-old gender patterns dressed up in new social forms.

    Item no.: NS01060119
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Copyright: 2011
    Price: USD 125.00

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    ASKING FOR IT: THE ETHICS & EROTICS OF SEXUAL CONSENT

    Directed & Edited by Sut Jhally

    The line between sexual consent and sexual coercion is not always as clear as it seems -- and according to Harry Brod, this is exactly why we should approach our sexual interactions with great care. Brod, a professor of philosophy and leader in the pro-feminist men's movement, offers a unique take on the problem of sexual assault, one that complicates the issue even as it clarifies the bottom-line principle that consent must always be explicitly granted, never simply assumed. In a nonthreatening, non-hectoring discussion that ranges from the meanings of "yes" and "no" to the indeterminacy of silence to the way alcohol affects our ethical responsibilities, Brod challenges young people to envision a model of sexual interaction that is most erotic precisely when it is most thoughtful and empathetic. Ideal for classes in gender studies, communication, and sociology, and especially useful for extracurricular programs and workshops.

    Item no.: PW01060100
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 38 minutes
    Copyright: 2010
    Price: USD 125.00

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    FIVE FRIENDS

    Directed by Erik Santiago

    American philosopher Elbert Hubbard was fond of quoting his father on friendship. "When you die," his father would tell him, "if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life." Five Friends, written and directed by Erik Santiago, is the story of how one man sought to live that life. Beautifully shot, from the mountains of Southern California to the New England coastline, the film follows a 65-year-old man and his five closest friends as they navigate and reflect on success, conflict, marriage, divorce, fatherhood, children, and dying. From touching moments and humor to horrific tragedy and darkness, Five Friends offers a breathtaking exploration of the emotional lives of men, and a deeply moving portrait of what men are capable of when they dare to open up with one another. Features commentary from experts including bestselling author and renowned sociologist Michael Kimmel.

    Item no.: JA01060118
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 70 minutes
    Copyright: 2010
    Price: USD 250.00

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    GLOUCESTER 18, THE: THE REALITIES OF TEEN PREGNANCY

    Director: John Michael Williams

    In 2008, eighteen high school girls from Gloucester, Massachusetts were accused of making a pact to become pregnant. The mainstream media perpetuated and sensationalized the story, with reporters flying in from as far away as Australia, the UK, and Brazil. The Gloucester 18 looks behind all the headlines and hype to tell the real stories of these girls, and in the process puts a human face on a startling statistic: that the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the developed world. The filmmakers draw on interviews with the girls, their families, high school counselors, physicians, and media personalities to unpack what really happened, and explore the complicated emotional and practical challenges faced by teens on the brink of motherhood. An excellent resource for high school health classes, teen pregnancy prevention programs, and courses in psychology, adolescent development, public health, and education.

    Reviews
  • "Every high school girl should see this film on the first day of high school and every year after." - Margaret Hoover | O'Reilly Factor Culture Warrior

  • "This film ...should be mandatory viewing for every teen in the country." - Yvonne Abraham | The Boston Globe

    Item no.: KH01060101
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 67 minutes
    Copyright: 2010
    Price: USD 195.00

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    KILLING US SOFTLY 4: ADVERTISING'S IMAGE OF WOMEN

    Directed By: Sut Jhally

    In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a range of new print and television advertisements to lay bare a stunning pattern of damaging gender stereotypes -- images and messages that too often reinforce unrealistic, and unhealthy, perceptions of beauty, perfection, and sexuality. By bringing Kilbourne's groundbreaking analysis up to date, Killing Us Softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence.

    Reviews
  • "Jean Kilbourne's work is pioneering and crucial to the dialogue of one of the most underexplored, yet most powerful, realms of American culture -- advertising. We owe her a great debt." - Susan Faludi, Author, Backlash and Stiffed

  • "As timely and important as ever...A must for everyone who cares about media literacy and gender equity." - Susan Douglas, Author, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up With the Mass Media

  • "Jean Kilbourne's work is profoundly important. She's one of those people who makes a difference in how we see the world." - Arlie Hochschild, Director of the Center for Working Families | University of California, Berkeley

    Awards
  • Academy for Eating Disorders, Special Recognition Award, 2002
  • Action Coalition for Media Education Media Activist National Award, 2006
  • Womanspace, Barbara Boggs Sigmund Award, 2008
  • Myra Sadker Equity Award, 2005
  • Germaine Lawrence, Inc., Woman of Excellence Award, 2005

    Item no.: ZH01060093
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 45 minutes
    Copyright: 2010
    Price: USD 295.00

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    LINE, THE

    Written, Directed by Nancy Schwartzman

    A young woman is raped when a one-night stand far from home goes terribly wrong. In the aftermath, as she struggles to make sense of what happened, she decides to make a film about the relationship between her own experience and the tangle of political, legal, and cultural questions that surround issues of sex and consent. Using a hidden camera, filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman goes head-to-head with the man who assaulted her, recording their conversation in an attempt to move through the trauma of her experience and achieve a better understanding of the sometimes ambiguous line between consent and coercion. The result is a powerful documentary about the terrible personal reality of rape and sexual violence -- and the more complicated and ambivalent ways sexual assault is often framed and understood in the wider culture. Schwartzman, as the prismatic main character, is likeable, while embodying the needs, desires, and inner conflicts common among young sexually active American women. Completed after being presented in classrooms on dozens of college campuses, The Line is structured to invite and reward students' trust, making them comfortable enough to discuss sex, consent, legal rights, and the politics surrounding gender violence while examining issues too often deemed embarrassing, shameful, or taboo.

    Reviews
  • "The Line raises crucial questions about sexual safety and pleasure as we navigate our hook-ups, fuck buddy choices, and longer-term relationships. Filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman blazes a brave trail, encouraging us to talk more openly and to think more clearly about how, where, and why we draw our personal lines of sexual consent." - Dr. Shira Tarrant, Editor, Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power

  • "I've always been as respectful to women as I can, but the film actually made me think about where the line really is." - Male Student, Rutgers University

  • "Nancy Schwartzman has made a brave, honest and gripping film. A must see for boys and men, empowering for girls and women -- this film will make a huge impact on the lives of many. The Line is a critically important visual essay." - Byron Hurt, Filmmaker, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

    Item no.: NE01060094
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 24 minutes
    Copyright: 2010
    Price: USD 195.00

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    CODES OF GENDER, THE: IDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE IN POP CULTURE

    Directed by Sut Jhally

    The Codes of Gender applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape, showing how one of American popular culture's most influential forms communicates normative ideas about masculinity and femininity.

    In striking visual detail, The Codes of Gender explores Goffman's central claim that gender ideals are the result of ritualized cultural performance, uncovering a remarkable pattern of masculine and feminine displays and poses. It looks beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and beyond analyses of gender that focus on biological difference or issues of objectification and beauty, to provide a clear-eyed view of the two-tiered terrain of identity and power relations.

    With its sustained focus on how our perceptions of what it means to be a man or a woman get reproduced and reinforced on the level of culture in our everyday lives, The Codes of Gender is certain to inspire discussion and debate across a range of disciplines.

    Item no.: FE01060088
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 73 minutes
    Copyright: 2009
    Price: USD 275.00

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    RED MOON: MENSTRUATION, CULTURE & THE POLITICS OF GENDER

    Directed by Diana Fabianova

    When filmmaker Diana Fabianova reached puberty, she found herself irremediably trapped in menstrual etiquette. She carefully hid the evidence from her father and brother first, and later on, from most of the other men in her life. And no matter how bad she felt, she pretended she was fine. The taboo far exceeded the scope of her family: it was all around her. Periods were a "girl thing." Periods were shameful. Periods were inappropriate for public discussion. End of the story? Not quite. Something in her was reluctant to accept and suffer in silence. Why did the sign of what all societies consider a blessing -- women's ability to give birth -- happen to be described with names and expressions like "the curse" (in England), the "English war debarquement" (in France), and "to be on the rags" (in the U.S.)?

    With humor and refreshing candor, Fabianova's Red Moon provides a fascinating, often ironic, take on the absurd and frequently dangerous cultural stigmas and superstitions surrounding women's menstruation. As educational as it is liberating, the film functions as both a myth-busting overview of the realities of menstruation, and a piercing cultural analysis of the ways in which struggles over meaning and power have played out through history on the terrain of women's bodies. Ideal for use in women's studies and health courses, as well as classes in anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.

    Item no.: GK01060098
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 53 minutes
    Copyright: 2009
    Price: USD 250.00

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    BEAUTY MARK: BODY IMAGE & THE RACE FOR PERFECTION (EDUCATIONAL EDITION)

    By Diane Israel, Carla Precht & Kathleen Man

    How do our families influence our relationship with our own bodies? How do American pop culture's standards of beauty get inside our hearts and heads? In what ways can sport and the drive for fitness actually make us sick rather than healthy?

    In this courageous, deeply personal new film, Diane Israel examines American culture's toxic emphasis on thinness, beauty, and physical perfection. Israel, a Boulder-based psychotherapist and former champion triathlete, talks candidly about her own struggle with eating disorders and obsessive exercising, fearlessly confronting her own painful past as she tries to come to terms with American culture's unhealthy fixation on self-destructive ideals of beauty and competitiveness.

    The film lends context to Israel's personal odyssey with fascinating insights from athletes, body builders, fashion models, and inner-city teens, as well as prominent cultural critics and authors such as Eve Ensler, Paul Campos, and Naomi Wolf. In a special bonus feature, Israel talks in detail about where she is in her recovery 2 years after the filming of Beauty Mark.

    Reviews
  • "Beauty Mark is a real gem. It is a unique, personal, insightful and powerful film. You have created a film which can touch both the mind and the heart." - Bill Baker, Former Chief Executive Officer, Thirteen/WNET New York

  • "...A great way to start out National Eating Disorders Awareness Week." - Erin Hurley, Men's and Women's Swim Coach at Grinnell College

  • "I was so intensely moved by watching Beauty Mark -- I had no words. It hit home with me on many different levels -- as a guidance counselor, daughter, mother, human...It gave me so much to think about and to use every day. I really thank you for sharing it." - Amy D., Guidance Counselor at Arlington High School

    Awards
  • Audience Choice Award, 2008 Estes Park Film Festival
  • Audience Choice Award, 2008 Moondance International Film Festival

    Item no.: TH01060085
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 50 minutes
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 250.00

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    GENERATION M: MISOGYNY IN MEDIA & CULTURE

    By Thomas Keith

    Despite the achievements of the women's movement over the past four decades, misogyny remains a persistent force in American culture. In this important documentary, Thomas Keith, professor of philosophy at California State University-Long Beach, looks specifically at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and hateful attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the very heart of our popular culture.

    The film tracks the destructive dynamics of misogyny across a broad and disturbing range of media phenomena: including the hyper-sexualization of commercial products aimed at girls, the explosion of violence in video games aimed at boys, the near-hysterical sexist rants of hip-hop artists and talk radio shock jocks, and the harsh, patronizing caricatures of femininity and feminism that reverberate throughout the mainstream of American popular culture.

    Along the way, Generation M forces us to confront the dangerous real-life consequences of misogyny in all its forms - making a compelling case that when we devalue more than half the population based on gender, we harm boys and men as well as women and girls.

    Item no.: AL01060075
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 54 minutes
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 250.00

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    MICHAEL KIMMEL ON GENDER: MARS, VENUS OR PLANET EARTH? MEN & WOMEN IN A NEW MILLENNIUM

    By Sut Jhally

    We've heard again and again that men and women are engaged in a "battle of the sexes," that we're so differently wired and so foreign to each other that we might as well come from different planets. In this powerful new lecture, renowned speaker and bestselling author Michael Kimmel (The Gendered Society, Manhood in America) turns this conventional wisdom on its head. With clarity and humor, Kimmel moves beyond the popular inter-planetary notion that "men are from Mars and women are from Venus" to advance a decidedly more earth-bound and inter-connected view of the things men and women have in common. This is an accessible and entertaining introduction to gender politics and gender theory - as intellectually informative as it is inspiring, and suited for use across a range of disciplines and courses.

    Reviews
  • "I've never seen such a large audience of students turn out for a speaker - and be so completely involved during the entire presentation." - College of New Jersey

    Item no.: HN01060078
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 54 minutes
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 125.00

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    PRICE OF PLEASURE: PORNOGRAPHY, SEXUALITY & RELATIONSHIPS

    By Chyng Sun & Miguel Picker

    Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has emerged as one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries, assuming an unprecedented role in the mainstream of our popular culture at the same time that its content has become more extreme and harsh, more overtly sexist and racist. This eye-opening and disturbing film tackles the complexity behind this seeming paradox, placing the voices of critics, producers, and performers alongside the observations of men and women as they candidly discuss the role pornography has played in shaping their sexual imaginations and relationships. Honest and non-judgmental, The Price of Pleasure moves beyond the liberal versus conservative debates so common in the culture to paint a myth-busting and nuanced portrait of how pleasure and pain, commerce and power, liberty and responsibility have become intertwined in the most intimate area of our lives. An ideal tool for initiating classroom discussion about this notoriously difficult subject.

    Reviews
  • "When we discuss pornography in my classes, we always begin with what seem to the wrong conversations -- the actress's choices; no harm, no foul; being pro-porn is just being pro-sex; men don't have to be rapists to like it -- always defensive and dishonest. I've been waiting for a film that was neither sanctimoniously scolding nor callously celebratory. And finally, there is The Price of Pleasure -- a film to help us really "see" what we have been looking at, and to enable us, finally, to talk about how pornography informs our actual lives. It's powerful, and I will use it immediately in my classes." - Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook

  • "Deeply disturbing but profoundly important." - Jean Kilbourne, Creator, Killing Us Softly 3, Author, So Sexy So Soon

  • "An intense, powerful documentary that will open up painful but necessary discussions about pornography's role in shaping our identities, our relationships, and our culture." - Rebecca Whisnant, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Dayton

  • "With original research, footage of popular pornographic films, insights from academic experts, interviews with sex workers and even pornographers, The Price of Pleasure educates viewers about the prevalence and increasingly violent content of contemporary pornography. Advocates of sexual freedom, as well as activists committed to ending sexual exploitation against women, find common cause in Chyng Sun's compelling argument: contemporary pornographic films illustrate conventional, not deviant, attitudes about women's sexuality. Viewer alert: gazing through the pornographic worldview will turn your stomach. Eat lightly before you watch this!" - Bernadette Barton, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Morehead State University, Author of Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers

    Item no.: VV01060079
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 55 minutes
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 250.00

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    DREAMWORLDS 3: DESIRE, SEX & POWER IN MUSIC (ABRIDGED)

    Dreamworlds 3, the highly anticipated update of Dreamworlds 2 (1995), examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and by extension boys and men, providing a meticulous analysis of how these narratives reflect and shape individual and cultural attitudes toward femininity, masculinity, sexuality, and race. Systematically dismantling music video's most persistent and disturbing stock representations, and setting them against cases of real-world violence, sexism and discrimination, the film inspires viewers to critically examine how the distorted images of the "Dreamworld" connect with the lives of real girls and women, and real boys and men.

    Item no.: JT01060041
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 35 minutes
    Copyright: 2007
    Price: USD 250.00

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    DREAMWORLDS 3: DESIRE, SEX & POWER IN MUSIC (UNABRIDGED)

    Dreamworlds 3, the highly anticipated update of Dreamworlds 2 (1995), examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and by extension boys and men, providing a meticulous analysis of how these narratives reflect and shape individual and cultural attitudes toward femininity, masculinity, sexuality, and race. Systematically dismantling music video's most persistent and disturbing stock representations, and setting them against cases of real-world violence, sexism and discrimination, the film inspires viewers to critically examine how the distorted images of the "Dreamworld" connect with the lives of real girls and women, and real boys and men.

    Item no.: JG01060013
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 60 minutes
    Copyright: 2007
    Price: USD 250.00

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    WRITING ABOUT MEDIA

    With Peter Elbow

    By combining focused writing instruction with a media literacy perspective, Writing About Media serves as an invaluable tool for college composition courses and upper-level high school writing classes.

    Item no.: PY01060071
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles, Curriculum Kit)
    Duration: Approx. 2 hours
    Copyright: 2007
    Price: USD 115.00

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    CLASS DISMISSED: HOW TV FRAMES THE WORKING CLASS

    Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows. This documentary breaks important new ground in exploring the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect with class, offering a complex reading of television's often one-dimensional representations. Featuring interviews with Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Herman Gray, Robin Kelley, Pepi Leistyna, Michael Zweig, Arlene Davila, Susan Douglas, Bambi Haggins, Lisa Henderson, Andrea Press, and others.

    Reviews
  • "Fast paced, hard hitting, and timely, Class Dismissed employs sophisticated theory to critically analyze the way media shapes how people understand and misunderstand class in American society." - LEE D. BAKER, Editor, Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience

  • "Essential viewing for students and researchers who are interested in the political economy of media, media and social change, media portrayals of social groups and issues, and media influence." - MARY BETH OLIVER, Professor of Communication, Penn State University

  • "Revelatory. Brings to light the political and economic forces that imperil workers, but rarely appear in sitcoms: the loss of millions of industrial jobs, depressed wages, and declining union membership, all at a time of drastic cutbacks in governmental expenditures on health, welfare and education." - STEPHEN STEINBERG, Author, Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy

    Item no.: TB01060062
    Format: DVD (With English & Spanish Subtitles)
    Duration: 62 minutes
    Copyright: 2006
    Price: USD 250.00

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    FURTHER OFF THE STRAIGHT & NARROW: NEW GAY VISIBILITY ON TELEVISION, 1998 - 2006

    Directed and edited by Katherine Sender.

    Picking up where the critically acclaimed Off the Straight & Narrow (1998) left off, this film examines the increasing presence of GLBT characters on sitcoms, reality shows, and premium cable programming. It takes account of the emerging variety and complexity of GLBT representations, while exploring how these representations continue to be shaped by the demands of the commercial media system. The film asks whether we are witnessing a dramatic and progressive opening of the culture, or simply a cautious recognition by advertisers of the buying power of GLBT consumers.

    Item no.: CA01060051
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 61 minutes
    Copyright: 2006
    Price: USD 250.00

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    HIP-HOP: BEYOND BEATS & RHYMES (ABRIDGED)

    By Byron Hurt

    Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture.

    Director Byron Hurt, former star college quarterback, longtime hip-hop fan, and gender violence prevention educator, conceived the documentary as a "loving critique" of a number of disturbing trends in the world of rap music. He pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of manhood.

    The documentary features revealing interviews about masculinity and sexism with rappers such as Mos Def, Fat Joe, Chuck D, Jadakiss, and Busta Rhymes, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, and cultural commentators such as Michael Eric Dyson and Beverly Guy-Shetfall.

    Critically acclaimed for its fearless engagement with issues of race, gender violence, and the corporate exploitation of youth culture.

    Reviews
  • "I am certain (Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes) will only add to the national and international dialogues around hip-hop culture, and its tremendous effect on our era." - Kevin Powell, Activist, Hip-Hop Journalist, Author

  • "Byron Hurt has a sophisticated and complex framing of the issues and is poised, with Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes to make a critical and long needed intervention on these very important facets of American youth music and culture." - Tricia Rose, Author, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Associate Professor of History and American Studies, New York University

  • "Both honors rap for its courage, as well as holding the producers and creators responsible for disseminating what are often degrading messages." - Gail Dines, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Wheelock College

  • "This film poses fundamental questions about how Hip-Hop culture represents and expresses basic attitudes in our society about love, violence, and compassion." - Orlando Bagwell, Actor

  • "Gives hip-hop an unrelenting, hard stare, questioning its stance on misogyny, hypersexuality, materialism, homophobia, homoeroticism, hypocrisy and the resultant stereotype perpetuation." - Grayson Curran, The Independent Weekly

  • "A tough-minded, erudite dissection of misogyny and homophobia in hip-hop - in the tradition of Supersize Me - this is the one that has people buzzing, 'It should be taught in high schools!'" - Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly

  • "Invaluable for understanding not only one aspect of African American culture but how it relates to the rest of American culture as well." - San Francisco Chronicle

    Festivals
  • Official Selection, 2006 Roxbury Film Festival
  • Official Selection, 2006 Melbourne International Film Festival
  • Official Selection, 2006 American Black Film Festival
  • Official Selection, 2006 San Francisco Black Film Festival
  • Official Selection, 2006 Hot Docs International Film Festival
  • Official Selection, 2006 Atlanta Hip Hop Film Festival
  • Official Selection, 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
  • Official Selection, 2006 International Documentary Film Festival (Amsterdam)
  • Official Selection, 2006 Urban World Film Festival
  • Official Selection, 2006 Sundance Film Festival

    Item no.: WA01060077
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 55 minutes
    Copyright: 2006
    Price: USD 295.00

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    HIP-HOP: BEYOND BEATS & RHYMES (UNABRIDGED)

    A riveting examination of masculinity, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. Delivering a self-described "loving critique" of rap music, director Byron Hurt - a former star college quarterback, longtime hip-hop fan, and now gender violence prevention educator- pays tribute to the power and creativity of hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of manhood.The documentary features revealing insights from rappers such as Mos Def, Fat Joe, Chuck D, Jadakiss, and Busta Rhymes, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, and cultural commentators such as Michael Eric Dyson, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and Kevin Powell. Critically acclaimed for its fearless engagement with issues of race and racism, gender violence, and the corporate exploitationof youth culture.

    Reviews
  • "Captivating" - Boston Globe

  • "Hard-hitting" - Reuters

  • "A fascinating subject rarely explored in the depth this short documentary submerges in."

    -- Michael Ferraro, Film Threat

  • "Byron Hurt's ground-breaking documentary is the talk of the Hip-Hop circuit and those in the know." - National Black Programming Consortium

  • "Provocative and edgy" - South Bend Tribune

  • "Incisive, informative and entertaining. . .Though the film bears a viewer discretion warning, it is exactly the kind of program that should be watched by teens who embrace hip-hop music without thinking of the stereotypes it perpetuates and the thug lifestyle it endorses." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  • "A profound analysis and self-criticism by a member of the Hip-Hop Generation." - Esther Iverem, SeeingBlack.com

  • "Filmmaker Byron Hurt takes the hip-hop industry--and audience--to task in his new documentary." - TimeOut Chicago

  • "A groundbreaking montage that questions masculinity, homophobia and misogyny in the hip-hop industry for those who live and breathe the culture." - Philadelphia Weekly

    Item no.: FJ01060055
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 60 minutes
    Copyright: 2006
    Price: USD 295.00

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    BOYS TO MEN?

    In this moving follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Hoop Dreams, award-winning filmmaker Frederick Marx continues his exploration of the lives of ordinary young men and the extraordinary challenges they face. Boys to Men? - the second in a proposed trilogy about masculinity in America- trains its focus on the pressures and expectations faced by a diverse group of young urban males. The DVD consists of four films. Are You Listening? Features several teenage boys from different ethnic, racial, and class backgrounds offering fascinating insights into their own experiences and the meaning of manhood in America. Three additional pieces - Spencer, Cisco, and Al-Tran - give insight into the lives of three 15-year-old boys as they navigate the daily challenges of school, family, and American society.

    Review
  • "Are You Listening?" (52 min); "Al-Tran" (31 min); "Cisco" (30 min); "Spencer" (30 min). Directed and produced by Frederick Marx. A Warrior Educational Films Production.

    Item no.: GJ01060027
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 143 minutes
    Copyright: 2004
    Price: USD 250.00

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    GIRLS: MOVING BEYOND MYTH

    By Susan Macmillan

    This compelling new documentary focuses on the sexual dilemmas and difficult life choices young girls face as they come of age in contemporary American culture. Challenging long-held myths about girlhood, the film draws on the insights of girls themselves to explore and shed light on their actual lived experience as they navigate our increasingly hyper-sexualized society. The voices of a diverse range of girls are supplemented with accessible analysis from leading experts on girls and sexuality, including Lynn Phillips, author of Flirting with Danger; Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Director of the Body Project; and Deborah Tolman, author of Dilemmas of Desire

    Review
  • "Girls, Moving Beyond Myth features a wide range of articulate and engaging experts discussing core developmental issues that girls must face in a post-modern, media-saturated world. A diverse group of girls speak with honest voices about their true thoughts and often anguished feeling. This video is educational in the finest sense of the word. It elucidates and motivates." - Mary Pipher, Pyschologist, Author, Reviving Ophelia

    Item no.: HZ01060076
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 28 minutes
    Copyright: 2004
    Price: USD 250.00

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    IT TAKES A TEAM! MAKING SPORTS SAFE FOR LGBT ATHLETES AND COACHES

    This educational program - is intended to help coaches, teachers, parents, and school administrators educate students about the harmful effects of homophobia. It asks how we can ensure that athletes are evaluated on their individual character and accomplishments, and not on their sexual orientation or gender expression.

    Item no.: CP01060021
    Format: DVD (With Digital Curriculum Guide)
    Duration: 15 minutes
    Copyright: 2004
    Price: USD 50.00

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    SPIN THE BOTTLE: SEX, LIES & ALCOHOL

    Featuring JACKSON KATZ & JEAN KILBOURNE With refreshing candor, Spin the Bottle examines how cultural messages about alcohol affect the lives of young people. Media critics Jackson Katz and Jean Kilbourne decode the glamorized stories media tell about drinking, while college students speak with poignant honesty about their own experiences with alcohol and its alluring public image. Sure to spark important conversation about the complex relationship between alcohol use, media influence, and personal responsibility.

    Review
  • "A sobering look at the truth behind the happy face that advertising and media put on a contemporary social disease. This is highly recommended." - VIDEO LIBRARIAN MAGAZINE

    Item no.: RH01060050
    Format: DVD (With English, Spanish Subtitles)
    Duration: 45 minutes
    Copyright: 2004
    Price: USD 275.00

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    BREAKING OUR SILENCE: GLOUCESTER MEN SPEAK OUT AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

    This documentary gives insight into the activist efforts of a group of men in the town of Gloucester, MA. Using footage from anti-violence marches and centering on community men speaking out against violence and domestic abuse, this program is an effective case study of how men can come together to challenge the violent construction of masculinity.

    Review
  • "These men bring it home loud and clear: there is no excuse for domestic abuse." - Nicole Richon Schoel, Director of Community Outreach, HAWC

    Item no.: MV01060007
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 11 minutes
    Copyright: 2002
    Price: USD 20.00

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    PLAYING UNFAIR: THE MEDIA IMAGE OF THE FEMALE ATHLETE

    Playing Unfair provides an in-depth critique of the sexism and homophobia that pervade media representations of female athletes. Sports media scholars Mary Jo Kane, Pat Griffin, and Michael Messner examine the disparity between the success of female athletes and sports journalism's often trivialized and (hetero)sexualized coverage of them.

    Item no.: GG01060040
    Format: DVD (With English, Spanish Subtitles)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Copyright: 2002
    Price: USD 225.00

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    WRESTLING WITH MANHOOD: BOYS, BULLYING & BATTERING

    Featuring SUT JHALLY &JACKSON KATZ

    While this critically-acclaimed film considers the persistent appeal of professional wrestling, its larger concern is how American popular culture idealizes pathological forms of masculinity that encourage sexism, homophobia, gender violence, and bullying. The film looks beyond the spectacle of professional wrestling to reveal its real-world implications and explode the myth that "it's only entertainment."

    Item no.: HM01060060
    Format: DVD (With English, Spanish Subtitles)
    Duration: 60 minutes
    Copyright: 2002
    Price: USD 250.00

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    MICKEY MOUSE MONOPOLY: DISNEY, CHILDHOOD & CORPORATE POWER

    Written by Chyng Sun.
    Directed and edited by Miguel Picker

    "Viewing Disney without rose-colored glasses," as the Boston Globe put it, Mickey Mouse Monopoly takes a close and critical look at the world of Disney's animated films, and the stories they tell about race, gender, and class. The program reaches disturbing conclusions about the values being propagated under the veneer of childhood innocence and fun. Featuring interviews with media experts, cultural critics, child psychologists, kindergarten teachers, multicultural educators, college students, and children, this defiant program examines Disney's corporate power and explores its pervasive influence on global culture.

    Item no.: DD01060028
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 52 minutes
    Copyright: 2001
    Price: USD 275.00

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    SPEAK UP! IMPROVING THE LIVES OF GLBT YOUTH

    Featuring JUDY SHEPARD & ANTHONY RAPP

    Speak Up! challenges the discrimination, harassment, and violence that result from homophobia - breaking the silence surrounding issues of sexual identity, and inspiring students to speak up against injustice and change the climate of their schools.

    Item no.: VD01060049
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Copyright: 2001
    Price: USD 195.00

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    WHAT A GIRL WANTS

    By Elizabeth Massie

    In girls' own voices, What a Girl Wants presents a glimpse into the powerful - and often destructive - influence commercial culture has on the formation of young girls' identities. A diverse group of eleven girls speaks honestly and openly about the sexual and body-image pressures they encounter as they come of age in a culture that idolizes Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, and other pop stars.

    Review
  • "Highly recommended [for] gender studies, communication and media studies, sociology and social work classes." DAVID NYLUND, CSU - Sacramento

    Item no.: TZ01060059
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 33 minutes
    Copyright: 2001
    Price: USD 225.00

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    GAME OVER: GENDER, RACE & VIOLENCE IN VIDEO GAMES

    Given the wild popularity of violent video games, it has never been more urgent to encourage dialogue about how virtual killing might shape attitudes about real-life violence. Game Over examines the nature and consequences of simulated violence, and encourages high school and college students to think critically about how gender and race are depicted in the video and computer games they play. It is sure to spark lively debate about the complex and controversial topic of violent entertainment's impact on society.

    Review
  • "We need to stop an industry that's selling death and horror and destruction to children as entertainment...These games are firearms training devices at best, and murder simulators at worst." - Lt. Col. David Grossman (US Army Rangers, Ret.)

    Item no.: BB01060017
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 41 minutes
    Copyright: 2000
    Price: USD 195.00

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    KILLING US SOFTLY 3: ADVERTISING'S IMAGE OF WOMEN

    Featuring: Jean Kilbourne

    Jean Kilbourne continues her groundbreaking analysis of advertising's depiction of women in this most recent update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series. In fascinating detail, Kilbourne decodes an array of print and television advertisements to reveal a pattern of disturbing gender stereotypes. Her analysis challenges us to consider the relationship between advertising and broader issues of culture, identity, sexism, and gender violence.

    Review
  • "As timely and important as ever...A must for everyone who cares about media literacy and gender equity." - SUSAN DOUGLAS, author, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up With the Mass Media

    Item no.: VK01060023
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 34 minutes
    Copyright: 2000
    Price: USD 295.00

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    TOUGH GUISE: VIOLENCE, MEDIA & THE CRISIS IN MASCULINITY (ABRIDGED VERSION)

    Edited for profanity, violence and length

    In this influential and groundbreaking film, pioneering anti-violence educator Jackson Katz argues that we need to understand the crisis of violence in American society - including school shootings, bullying, hate crimes, sexual assault, and teen dating violence - as part of a more fundamental crisis in masculinity. Taking a sustained look at media portrayals of boys and men, the film shows how American pop culture glamorizes definitions of manhood that normalize men's violence.

    Review
  • "A fearless look at the cultural factors that encourage violence. Tough Guise needs to be watched by every¡Kstudent in America." - Mary Atwater, Violence Prevention Coordinator, Jefferson County, Colorado

    Item no.: GR01060053
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 57 minutes
    Copyright: 1999
    Price: USD 275.00

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    TOUGH GUISE: VIOLENCE, MEDIA & THE CRISIS IN MASCULINITY (UNABRIDGED)

    In this influential and groundbreaking film, pioneering anti-violence educator Jackson Katz argues that we need to understand the crisis of violence in American society - including school shootings, bullying, hate crimes, sexual assault, and teen dating violence - as part of a more fundamental crisis in masculinity. Taking a sustained look at media portrayals of boys and men, the film shows how American pop culture glamorizes definitions of manhood that normalize men's violence.

    Review
  • "A fearless look at the cultural factors that encourage violence. Tough Guise needs to be watched by every¡Kstudent in America." - Mary Atwater, Violence Prevention Coordinator, Jefferson County, Colorado

    Item no.: NU01060054
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 82 minutes
    Copyright: 1999
    Price: USD 275.00

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    I AM A MAN: BLACK MASCULINITY IN AMERICA

    This award-winning documentary links everyday black men from various socioeconomic backgrounds with some of America's most prominent academics, social critics, and authors to provide an engaging, candid dialogue on black masculine identity in American culture. Featuring interviews with bell hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, John Henrick Clarke, Dr. Alvin Poussaint, MC Hammer, and others.

    Item no.: NY01060057
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 60 minutes
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 215.00

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    OFF THE STRAIGHT & NARROW: LESBIANS, GAYS, BISEXUALS & TELEVISION: 1967 - 1998

    Off the Straight and Narrow provides a political and cultural analysis of television's representation of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals.

    Review
  • "An invaluable resource for reflecting on the role media play in perpetuating homophobia." - ELIZABETH ROWELL, Professor of Education

    Item no.: MN01060035
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 63 minutes
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 195.00

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    REVIVING OPHELIA: SAVING THE SELVES OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS

    Featuring MARY PIPHER

    Based on Mary Pipher's bestselling book, this illustrated interview examines the challenges faced by teenage girls, and the role media and popular culture play in shaping their identities. Reviving Ophelia inspires families, teachers, schools, and civic groups to empower girls to free themselves from the toxic influences of today's media-saturated culture.

    Reviews
  • "Mary Pipher is the leading voice in a growing debate about whether 'junk values' are ruining America's families." - USA WEEKEND

  • "One of the most valuable videos for teachers, parents, and young people to see about media and girls...It empowers those who see it in our workshops." - BOB MCCANNON, Co-President, Action Coalition for Media Education

    Item no.: PN01060045
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 38 minutes
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 275.00

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    TEEN SEXUALITY IN A CULTURE OF CONFUSION

    By Dan Habib

    This program explores the forces influencing young people's decisions about sex: media, friends, family, religion, love, AIDS, alcohol, and homophobia. Teen Sexuality in a Culture of Confusion is a unique, accessible tool for facilitating an informed, balanced discussion about these and other influences on young people. In the age of AIDS, such talk can save lives. When young people tell their own stories, their peers listen. In this program, award-winning documentarian and photojournalist Dan Habib features the stories of eight young people, ages 16-24. Two of the eight talk about living with AIDS.

    Interlaced with the first-person stories are experts' observations about the messages young people get from popular culture. Susan Bordo, author of Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body, joins five other prominent social scientists in discussing cultural influences on sexual activity among young people.

    Review
  • "The best video I've seen in...reviewing educational material." - Helen Morris, HIV and AIDS Education, National School Boards Association

    Item no.: MW01060081
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 40 minutes
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 99.00

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    WAR ZONE

    Directed by Maggie Hadleigh-West

    What's it like to walk down the street and be heckled, harassed, followed, and touched by men? Filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West armed herself with a video camera to show us, confronting the men who abuse her in this fascinating and critically-acclaimed documentary.

    Item no.: FP01060058
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 45 minutes
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 195.00

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    RECOVERING BODIES: OVERCOMING EATING DISORDERS

    Recovering Bodies features college students on the subject of eating disorders. They share their stories and experiences about the wide range of pressures that can lead to disordered eating, while providing valuable personal insights into the variety of psychological and physical symptoms involved. Also features expert commentary from professionals, and provides invaluable and empowering information about successful recovery and healing strategies.

    Item no.: LH01060043
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 34 minutes
    Copyright: 1997
    Price: USD 175.00

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    SLIM HOPES: ADVERTISING & THE OBSESSION WITH THINNESS

    Featuring JEAN KILBOURNE

    Jean Kilbourne's popular program Slim Hopes offers a comprehensive analysis of advertising's depictions of bodies and food, and the devastating effects these images can have on girls' and women's health. Using numerous ads, Kilbourne shows how the prevalence of extremely thin models, in combination with advertising that encourages emotional eating, charts a clear path to disordered attitudes toward food and the body.

    Review
  • "Shocking and empowering! Slim Hopes is must viewing. You will never look at advertising and women's bodies in the same way again." - CHRISTINE NORTHRUP, M.D., author, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom

    Item no.: HC01060048
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Copyright: 1995
    Price: USD 250.00

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    DATE RAPE BACKLASH, THE: MEDIA & THE DENIAL OF RAPE

    How did date rape shift from a "shockingly frequent¡Koutrage," as Newsweek once called it, to a controversy over "crying rape," as New York Magazine later labeled it? Academy Award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise) guides us through complicated intersections of gender, sex, power and violence, while Susan Faludi, bell hooks, and others expose this shift as a classic case of media "backlash" against women's autonomy.

    Item no.: DN01060011
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 57 minutes
    Copyright: 1994
    Price: USD 195.00

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