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BILLIONAIRES' TEA PARTY, THE: HOW CORPORATE AMERICA IS FAKING A GRASSROOTS REVOLUTION

In the summer of 2009, shortly after Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress swept to power promising a new era of hope and change, a citizens protest movement emerged out of nowhere threatening to derail their agenda. Some said this uprising was the epitome of grassroots democracy. Others said it was a classic example of 'astroturfing' -- an elaborate corporate public relations effort designed to create the impression of a spontaneous uprising. Curious to find out for himself, Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham goes undercover and straight into the heart of the movement. He visits raucous health care town hall meetings where irate voters parrot insurance industry PR; learns that home-grown "citizen groups" challenging the science behind climate change are funded by big oil companies; and infiltrates a tea party movement whose anti-government rage turns out to be less the product of populist rage than of corporate strategy. In the end, The Billionaires' Tea Party offers a terrifying look at how corporate elites are exploiting the anxieties of ordinary Americans -- capitalizing on anger, resentment, and paranoia to advance a narrow, often anti-democratic, agenda.

Reviews
  • "Taki Oldham's documentary is journalism at its best. I wish every American could see it before the election. I just watched it and am even more concerned about the future of our democracy than ever before." - Wendell Potter | Author of Deadly Spin: An Insurance Industry Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

  • "Brilliant." - George Monbiot | The Guardian

  • "Essential viewing." - David Suzuki | Author & Environmentalist

    Item no.: YH01060104
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 54 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2011
    StdBkNo.: 1932869530
    Price: USD 250.00

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    RETURNING FIRE: INTERVENTIONS IN VIDEO GAME CULTURE

    Video games like Modern Warfare, America's Army, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The sophistication of these games is undeniable, offering users a stunningly realistic experience of ground combat and a glimpse into the increasingly virtual world of long-distance, push-button warfare. Far less clear, though, is what these games are doing to users, our political culture, and our capacity to empathize with people directly affected by the actual trauma of war. For the culture-jamming activists featured in this film, these uncertainties were a call to action. In three separate vignettes, we see how Anne-Marie Schleiner, Wafaa Bilal, and Joseph Delappe moved dissent from the streets to our screens, infiltrating war games in an attempt to break the hypnotic spell of "militainment." Their work forces all of us -- gamers and non-gamers alike -- to think critically about what it means when the clinical tools of real-world killing become forms of consumer play.

    Item no.: VW01060116
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 44 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2011
    StdBkNo.: 1932869522
    Price: USD 250.00

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    NOT JUST A GAME: POWER, POLITICS & AMERICAN SPORTS

    We've been brought up to believe that sports and politics don't mix -- that games are games and athletes should just "shut up and play." In the view of iconoclastic sportswriter Dave Zirin, this mentality cheapens both. In Not Just a Game, Zirin shows that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, sports have also reflected, and at times played a role in shaping, the political tensions and social struggles at the heart of American society. The film takes an uncompromising look at how sports culture has glamorized militarism, commercialism, racism, sexism, and homophobia. But it also excavates a largely forgotten tradition of rebel athletes and sports writers to show how American sports culture, at its best, has modeled forms of courage, resistance, and perseverance that have enriched American life.

    Review
  • "If there were an award for 'Most Valuable Sportswriter,' I would vote for Dave Zirin. His writing combines vivid narrative, good humor, impressive knowledge of the game, and a keen awareness of the connection between sports and the world outside." - Howard Zinn

    Item no.: MR01060102
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: Apprx 60 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2010
    StdBkNo.: 1932869506
    Price: USD 250.00

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    THIS LAND IS OUR LAND: THE FIGHT TO RECLAIM THE COMMONS

    For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In This Land is Our Land, bestselling author David Bollier, a leading figure in the global movement to reclaim the commons, bucks the rising tide of anti-government extremism and free market ideology to show how commercial interests are undermining our collective interests. Placing the commons squarely within the American tradition of community engagement and the free exchange of ideas and information, Bollier shows how a bold new international movement steeped in democratic principles is trying to reclaim our common wealth by modeling practical alternatives to the restrictive monopoly powers of corporate elites.

    Item no.: NH01060103
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 46 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2010
    StdBkNo.: 1932869492
    Price: USD 250.00

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    ABE OSHEROFF: ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE, THE OTHER STILL DANCING

    Director: Nadeem Uddin

    Most people knew Abe Osheroff as an activist. For most of his 92 years - from the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War to the picket lines of the U.S. labor movement, from the struggles for civil rights in Mississippi to his work for human rights in Nicaragua - Osheroff threw himself into the fray with rare energy and enthusiasm. In this riveting and inspiring new film, Osheroff reflects on the meaning of his activism, exploring the ideas that animated his actions and sharing wisdom built up over a lifetime of commitment to the "radical humanism" that defined his politics and philosophy

    Review
  • "Nadeem Uddin's documentary of Abe Osheroff presents us with a great man I think not possible to envision in our present generation." - Edward Asner, Emmy Award-winning film and television actor and former Screen Actors Guild president

    Item no.: SB01060084
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 46 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2009
    StdBkNo.: 1932869352
    Price: USD 195.00

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    BLIND SPOT: PEAK OIL & THE COMING GLOBAL CRISIS

    Director: Adolfo Doring In this haunting portrait of America's oil-fueled excesses, director Adolfo Doring explores the inextricable link between the energy we use, the way we run our economy, and the multiplying threats that now confront the environmental health and stability of our planet. Taking as its starting point the inevitable energy depletion scenario known as "Peak Oil," the film surveys a fascinating range of the latest intellectual, political, and scientific thought to make the case that by whatever measure of greed, wishful thinking, neglect, or ignorance, we now find ourselves at a disturbing crossroads: we can continue to burn fossil fuels and witness the collapse of our ecology, or we can choose not to and witness the collapse of our economy. Refusing to whitewash this reality, Blind Spot issues a call to action, urging us to face up to the perilous situation we now find ourselves in so that we might begin to envision a realistic, if inconvenient, way out. Certain to inspire debate in classrooms across a range of disciplines, especially in economics, environmental studies, the natural sciences, and political science.

    Reviews
  • "Blind Spot rides currents of beauty and sadness, ultimately landing with a catharsis that comes when truth has been told." - Jason Bradford, Founder of 'Willits Economic Localization'

  • "Doubtless Peak Oil will come, the timing is a matter of debate. However we may be better off if it is not too long delayed, because it will accelerate what must be done to prevent environmental catastrophe." - Noam Chomsky

  • "Beautiful, crucial, straightforward, brilliantly woven images, words and music." - John Stauber, Author of Toxic Sludge Is Good For You

    Item no.: KT01060086
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 54 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2009
    StdBkNo.: 1932869344
    Price: USD 250.00

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    LIVE FROM BETHLEHEM

    By Matt Sienkiewicz and Joseph C. Sousa

    The Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency (MNA) emerged out of the ashes of the second Intifada to become the only independent news network in the Palestinian Territories and an increasingly prominent and influential journalistic force in the wider Middle East. Live from Bethlehem tells MNA's remarkable story. It chronicles the agency's struggles and successes through the eyes of the station's reporters, producers, and photographers, in the process quietly revealing the humanity of ordinary Palestinians as they go about their daily business. The documentary trains its focus on people more than on abstract issues, yet it never loses sight of the myriad social and political forces and pressures that Ma'an journalists are forced to negotiate as they try to gather and report balanced information. What results is an admirably nuanced portrait of how news gets produced, and how Palestinians live, in one of the world's most troubled regions.

    Reviews
  • "fascinating..." - The Chicago Reader
  • "A truly superb film¡Kexceptional in its nuanced portrayal of the forces that come to bear on media production in the Palestinian Territories." - Dr. Michael Curtin, author of Playing to the World's Biggest Audience

    Item no.: WY01060090
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 36 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2009
    StdBkNo.: 1932869328
    Price: USD 250.00

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    REFUGE: A FILM ABOUT DARFUR

    Director: Alexandre Trudeau

    In this alternately enraging and heartbreaking documentary, Canadian student Jonathan Pedneault and filmmaker Alexandre Trudeau travel to Darfur to try to make sense of reports of genocide in the region. Making their way clandestinely with a group of rebels into the heart of the Sudanese war zone, they chronicle stories of unfathomable human despair and courage: NGOs struggling to get food to the starving, refugees fighting for water, waves of people battered by civil war and incomprehensible violence stumbling into camps on the edge of survival. Succeeds brilliantly in capturing the human face behind this geopolitical crisis.

    Item no.: KN01060091
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 52 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2009
    StdBkNo.: 1932869336
    Price: USD 250.00

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    BLOOD AND OIL: THE DANGERS & CONSEQUENCES OF AMERICA'S GROWING DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN PETROLEUM

    Featuring Michael T. Klare

    With clarity and urgency, Blood and Oil transcends partisan politics to show how six decades of failed government policy have increased America's dependence on foreign oil and made its energy and defense policies virtually interchangeable.

    Against the grain of leaders and pundits who have dismissed and belittled claims that the U.S. has sacrificed the lives of its troops and countless others around the world to feed its oil habit, the film exposes a fundamental connection between diminishing global petroleum supplies, skyrocketing rates of global consumption, and successive American wars and military interventions. Based on the critically-acclaimed book by international security expert Michael T. Klare.

    "Resources, not differences in civilizations or identities, are at the root of most contemporary confilict." - Michael T. Klare

    Item no.: JR01060026
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: Approx. 55 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2007
    StdBkNo.: 1932869255
    Price: USD 195.00

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    FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: RESISTANCE & REPRESSION IN THE AGE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

    Narrated by NAOMI KLEIN

    In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression"- a startling comment on the way that intellectual property law restricts creativity and the expression of ideas. This provocative and amusing documentary, based on McLeod's award-winning book of the same title, explores the battles being waged in courts, classrooms, museums, film studios, and the Internet over control of our cultural commons. Charting the many successful attempts to push back this assault by overzealous copyright holders, Freedom of ExpressionR is an essential tool for educators, activists, filmmakers, students, artists, librarians, and more. Featuring interviews with Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Law professor and founder, Stanford Center for Internet and Society), Carrie McLaren (journalist, activist, and curator of the Illegal Art Exhibition), Marjorie Heins (founder, Free Expression Policy Project), Pat Aufderheide (Communication professor, American University and co-director, the Center for Social Media), and eleven others.

    Includes the popular short film by Eric Faden: A Fair(y) Use Tale

    Review
  • " This smartly-made and seriously funny documentary provides an aerial view of the battleground that is today's copyright landscape. Illustrating the comments of many well-known critics of runaway copyright & trademark law with apt audiovisual examples, Freedom of Expression succeeds as an engaging and concrete presentation." - Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American University

    Item no.: MY01060047
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: Approx. 60 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2007
    StdBkNo.: 1893521370
    Price: USD 250.00

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    MILITAINMENT, INC.: MILITARISM & POP CULTURE

    By ROGER STAHL

    Militainment, Inc. 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.

    Item no.: ZV01060065
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 124 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2007
    StdBkNo.: 1932869158
    Price: USD 225.00

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    WAR MADE EASY: HOW PRESIDENTS & PUNDITS KEEP SPINNING US TO DEATH

    Featuring Norman Solomon
    Narrated by Sean Penn


    War Made Easy exposes how presidential administrations of both parties have relied on a combination of deception and media complicity to sell one war after another to the American people. Narrated by actor Sean Penn, and based on the acclaimed book by Norman Solomon, the film exhumes five decades of remarkable archival footage to reveal in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated and glamorized the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations. The film gives special attention to parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq, setting government spin and media collusion from the present alongside virtually identical patterns from the past. An invaluable introduction to war propaganda and public relations that transcends partisan politics as it raises serious questions about the role of journalism and political communication in democratic societies.

    Review
  • "A superb visual form of investigative journalism." - Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

  • "A total tour-de-force." - JAY CASSIDY, EDITOR, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

  • "Compelling¡K A keen analysis of how war has been made easy by well-oiled propaganda techniques." - BuzzFlash.com

  • "Solomon is one of the sharpest media-watchers in the bussiness." - BARBARA EHRENREICH, JOURNALIST & AUTHOR, BAIT AND SWITCH

    Item no.: TH01060069
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 72 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2007
    StdBkNo.: 1932869131
    Price: USD 195.00

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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
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2007
    StdBkNo.: 1932869247
    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
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2006
    StdBkNo.: 1932869034
    Price: USD 250.00

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    CULTURE, POLITICS & PEDAGOGY: A CONVERSATION WITH HENRY GIROUX

    An active citizen, says the prolific and influentialscholar and teacher Henry Giroux, is "somebody who has the capacity not only to understand and engage the world but to transform it when necessary - and to believe he or she can do that. In this provocative new interview, Giroux speaks with passion and clarity about the inextricable links between education, civic engagement, and social justice. Strongly influenced by Paulo Freire, the Brazilian scholar of progressive education, Giroux advocates for a pedagogy of liberation that challenges inequality, oppression, fundamentalism, and authoritarianism, while developing the critical capacities needed to engage ideas and the world. Essential viewing for teachers and students of education, cultural studies, and communication.

    Item no.: HE01060031
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 50 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2006
    StdBkNo.: 1932869093
    Price: USD 95.00

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    REEL BAD ARABS: HOW HOLLYWOOD VILIFIES A PEOPLE

    Featuring Dr.Jack Shaheen

    This groundbreaking documentary takes aim at a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged from the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, Reel Bad Arabs explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs, from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-toting terrorists. Along the way, it offers devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypical images and their development at key points in U.S. history. By inspiring critical thinking about the social and political effects of these Hollywood caricatures, the film challenges viewers to recognize the urgent need for counter-narratives that do justice to the diversity and humanity of Arab people, and the reality and richness of Arab history and culture.

    Review
  • "Good documentaries can move you or inform you. Great documentaries can change your entire point of view. Reel Bad Arabs falls into the latter category." - FAIZAN RASHID, Film Critic, The Emirates Network

  • "Jack Shaheen is a one-man anti-defamation league.'' - HELEN THOMAS, Distinguished Journalist & Author

  • "Good documentaries can move you or inform you. Great documentaries can change your entire point of of fairness and sanity in pointing out Hollywood's ongoing egregious smearing of Arabs." - HOWARD ROSENBERG, Los Angeles Times TV Critic

    Item no.: JP01060066
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 50 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2006
    StdBkNo.: 193286900X
    Price: USD 250.00

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    STUART HALL: THE ORIGINS OF CULTURAL STUDIES

    In this classic 1989 lecture, world-renowned cultural theorist Stuart Hall traces the social, intellectual, and institutional environment from which cultural studies emerged. An invaluable introduction to the issues that inspired cultural studies as both an intellectual and political project.

    Item no.: RR01060068
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 40 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2006
    StdBkNo.: 1932869115
    Price: USD 95.00

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    AMMO FOR THE INFO WARRIOR 2

    By Josh Shore

    "Information is the ultimate weapon," this program proclaims. Based in New York City, Guerrilla News Network (GNN) is an independent news organization with a mission to expose young people to important global news and information free from corporate filters, through programming on the Web and on TV. GNN's news videos are 5 to 10 minute documentaries combining high-impact images, commentary by media experts, scholars, and political leaders with music cuts by top recording artists like Peter Gabriel and the Beastie Boys.

    Ammo for the Info Warrior features nine of GNN's most compelling news videos - covering a range of stories, from the violent diamond trade in Sierra Leone to the PR industry's manipulation of public opinion to slam poetry about the business of hip-hop. The collection includes "Crack the CIA," a controversial video examining CIA complicity in drug trafficking.

    This innovative educational tool introduces serious socio-political issues to a generation brought up on MTV and will serve as an ideal catalyst for discussion and debate, encouraging students to develop skills in critical thinking.

    Sections: CopWatch, Contaminated: The New Science of Food, Drug War Reality Tour, Faith in Exile, IBM and the Holocaust, Closer: The Fall of Baghdad, BattleGround: 21 Days on the Empire's Edge - Trailer, The Quiet and Subtle Cyclone, Rong Radio

    Item no.: PA01060024
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 90 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2005
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    Price: USD 150.00

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    ARNA'S CHILDREN: HOW THE CHILDREN OF A PALESTINIAN THEATRE GROUP GOT INVOLVED IN THE INTIFADAH

    By Juliano Mer Khamis

    This personal narrative tells the story of a children's theatre group on the West Bank that was established by Arna Mer Khamis, who grew up in a Zionist family and later married a Palestinian Arab. Directed by Arna's son Juliano, Arna's Children shifts back and forth in time to show the children in rehearsal from 1989 to 1996, and then revisits them later to discover the tragic fates that awaited three of them. Devastating and shocking, the film reveals the tragedy and horror of lives trapped by the circumstances of the Israeli occupation.

    Review
  • "Mer is not addressing the Jewish or Arab viewer. He is addressing those who do not know what a life without hope is." - YITZKAH LAOR, Haaretz Daily

    Item no.: DR01060025
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 84 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2004
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    Price: USD 120.00

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    BEYOND THE FRAME: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE WAR ON TERRORISM

    This DVD compilation features stand-alone interviews with some of the most prominent scholars and activists on the subject of mainstream media's coverage of the "war on terrorism."

    The format is designed to allow educators to bring the voices of these cultural analysts directly into their classrooms.

    Featuring interviews with Noam Chomsky, Kevin Danaher, Robert Jensen, Naomi Klein, Manning Marable, and 18 others.

    Review
  • "A must for communication, modern world history, social studies, and journalism classrooms." - ROB WILLIAMS, Co-President, Action Coalition for Media Education

    Item no.: GW01060006
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 146 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2004
    StdBkNo.: 189352194X
    Price: USD 95.00

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    PEACE, PROPAGANDA & THE PROMISED LAND: U.S. MEDIA & THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

    Featuring interviews with Noam Chomsky, Hanan Ashrawi, Robert Fisk, and Rabbi Michael Lerner among many others.

    This critically-acclaimed documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites work in combination with Israeli public relations strategists to exercise a powerful influence over news coverage of the Middle East conflict. Combining American and British TV news clips with the insights of analysts, journalists, and political activists, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides an historical overview, a devastating comparison of U.S. and international media coverage, and an examination of the factors that have distorted U.S. media reporting and American public opinion.

    Review
  • "Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land should be required viewing for every citizen in the United States." - ROBERT McCHESNEY, University of Illinois

    Item no.: HY01060038
    Format: DVD (With English, French, Spanish Subtitles)
    Duration: 80 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2004
    StdBkNo.: 1893521931
    Price: USD 250.00

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    BEYOND GOOD & EVIL: CHILDREN, MEDIA & VIOLENT TIMES

    Written by Chyng Sun
    Directed and edited by Miguel Picker


    Beyond Good and Evil argues that U.S. political leaders and news media responded to the 9/11 tragedy by simplifying complex international relationships into a fight between good and evil.

    The program examines how this "good and evil" narrative shapes our perceptions of, and response to, conflict more generally. Focusing on the impact of such rhetoric and imagery on children, the film asks viewers to consider the long term consequences of reductive thinking.

    Review
  • "Beyond Good and Evil highlights the failure of government and our most powerful media corporations either to protect children from the harm of real and virtual violence or to foster thoughtful, ethical responses to complex social and political issues. The pure-hearted reactions of the children in this film to the horrors of war are moving, while the simplistic thinking of many of the adults is appalling." - Joan Almon, US Alliance for Childhood

  • "At a time when educators across the US are dealing with how to complicate young people's thinking around the various world issues we as a country are involved in, here is a superb tool for teachers to explore these issues from a deeper perspective than I have ever seen. A wonderful staff development tool to discuss these issues as a staff and get a lively discussion going around some difficult to talk about topics." - Linda Lantieri, Founding Director, Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP), a project of Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR)

  • "How do simplistic good versus evil and us versus them messages influence U.S. culture and policy-making, from classrooms to media to the highest levels of government? This MEF film explores this question." - Rob Williams, President, Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME)

    Item no.: GS01060005
    Format: DVD (With English & Spanish Subtitles)
    Duration: 37 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2003
    StdBkNo.: 1893521966
    Price: USD 275.00

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    INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN A TIME OF WAR

    Featuring AMY GOODMAN

    In this powerful indictment of corporate media's news coverage of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Amy Goodman - independent journalist and host of the popular radio show Democracy Now! - shows how the news glorified military combat and downplayed civilian casualties at the expense of democratic debate about war. Features extensive use of mainstream news clips juxtaposed with rare footage from independent reporters in Iraq.

    Item no.: BG01060020
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 35 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2003
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    Price: USD 50.00

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    RICH MEDIA, POOR DEMOCRACY

    Featuring ROBERT MCCHESNEY
    With MARK CRISPIN MILLER


    Robert McChesney, author of the award-winning book of the same title, examines the impact of media consolidation on journalism and dem- ocracy, arguing that far from delivering on the promise of more choice and greater diversity, consolidation has undermined competition resulting in an increasingly homogenized media land- scape and a news media system high on sensation-alism and low on information.

    Review
  • "A valuable tool for educators and activists alike." - DAVID BARSAMIAN, Alternative Radio

    Item no.: GK01060046
    Format: DVD (With English, Spanish Subtitles)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2003
    StdBkNo.: 1893521826
    Price: USD 225.00

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    AMMO FOR THE INFO WARRIOR 1

    By Josh Shore

    "Information is the ultimate weapon," this program proclaims. Based in New York City, Guerrilla News Network (GNN) is an independent news organization with a mission to expose young people to important global news and information free from corporate filters, through programming on the Web and on TV. GNN's news videos are 5 to 10 minute documentaries combining high-impact images, commentary by media experts, scholars, and political leaders with music cuts by top recording artists like Peter Gabriel and the Beastie Boys.

    Ammo for the Info Warrior features nine of GNN's most compelling news videos - covering a range of stories, from the violent diamond trade in Sierra Leone to the PR industry's manipulation of public opinion to slam poetry about the business of hip-hop. The collection includes "Crack the CIA," a controversial video examining CIA complicity in drug trafficking.

    This innovative educational tool introduces serious socio-political issues to a generation brought up on MTV and will serve as an ideal catalyst for discussion and debate, encouraging students to develop skills in critical thinking.

    Sections: Nine News Videos: Countdown: Ralph Nader Remix on Politics, Big Business, the Media System & Democracy, Crack the CIA, The War Conspiracy, When the Smoke Clearz, The Most Dangerous Game, The Diamond Life, 9-11 Redux, John Stauber: Stealing the Spin from the PR Industry, Robert Sterling: Guerilla Warfare in the Information Age

    Festival
  • Official Selection, 2002 Sundance Online Film Festival

    Award
  • Best Live Action Award, Crack the CIA, 2002 Sundance Online Film Festival

    Item no.: JY01060002
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 90 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2002
    StdBkNo.: 1893521788
    Price: USD 150.00

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    TOXIC SLUDGE IS GOOD FOR YOU: THE PUBLIC RELATIONS INDUSTRY UNSPUN

    Narrated by AMY GOODMAN

    Exposing the invisible - but all-pervasive -public relations industry, Toxic Sludge Is Good for You helps viewers understand the tools PR professionals use to shape public opinion, "sell" war, and manage corporate crises. This engaging film reveals how much of what the public sees as factual, unbiased news and information has its origins in corporate boardrooms. Featuring interviews with John Stauber of PR Watch and cultural theorists Stuart Ewen and Mark Crispin Miller.

    Item no.: MV01060056
    Format: DVD (With English, Spanish Subtitles)
    Duration: 45 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2002
    StdBkNo.: 1893521745
    Price: USD 225.00

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    CONSTRUCTING PUBLIC OPINION: HOW POLITICIANS & THE MEDIA MISREPRESENT THE PUBLIC

    Featuring JUSTIN LEWIS

    Political theorist Justin Lewis examines how polling data presented in the media do not simply reflect what Americans think, but construct public opinion itself. Exploding the myth that most Americans are moderate or conservative, Constructing Public Opinion demonstrates how political elites help to promote militarism, and how mainstream media sustain an electoral system with a built-in bias against the interests of ordinary people.

    Item no.: RT01060009
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 32 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2001
    StdBkNo.: 1893521427
    Price: USD 195.00

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    EDWARD SAID: ON ORIENTALISM

    Based on Edward Said's influential book, Orientalism, this engaging and lavishly illustrated program examines the context within which he conceived the book, as well as his cultural analysis of media representations of the Middle East and Islam. In a post-9/11 world, this program provides an indispensable perspective.

    Item no.: TN01060014
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 40 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 1998
    StdBkNo.: 189352146X
    Price: USD 225.00

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    EDWARD SAID: THE MYTH OF 'THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS'

    In this important lecture, which is particularly relevant to the 'War on Terrorism,' Edward Said challenges the ideological assumption that the contemporary world is characterized by conflicts between different and "clashing" civilizations (Western, Islamic, Confucian).

    Item no.: ZC01060033
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 60 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 1998
    StdBkNo.: 1893521478
    Price: USD 125.00

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    MYTH OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA, THE: THE PROPAGANDA MODEL OF NEWS

    Featuring EDWARD HERMAN & NOAM CHOMSKY

    Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky overturn one of the dominant myths in our political culture-the notion that mainstream media have a liberal bias. Drawing on extensive empirical research, they reveal that in actuality the news media have become so subordinated to corporate interests that they are far to the right of the American people.

    Item no.: PT01060032
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 60 minutes
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    Copyright: 1997
    StdBkNo.: 1893521567
    Price: USD 195.00

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    STUART HALL: RACE, THE FLOATING SIGNIFIER

    With an introduction by SUT JHALLY

    Arguing against biological interpretations of racial difference, Stuart Hall asks viewers to pay close attention to the cultural processes by and through which the visible differences of appearance come to stand for natural or biological properties of human beings.

    Review
  • "A marvelous opportunity to see Stuart Hall in action. He is more than engaging; he is spellbinding." - Ellen Wartella, University of Texas at Austin

    Item no.: JZ01060042
    Format: 2 DVDs
    Duration: 62 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 1997
    StdBkNo.: 1893521621
    Price: USD 195.00

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    STUART HALL: REPRESENTATION & THE MEDIA

    With an introduction by SUT JHALLY

    In this illustrated lecture, Stuart Hall examines gender and racial stereotyping in the media. He focuses on the concept of "representation" to show how reality is never experienced directly, but is instead filtered through symbolic cultural categories.

    Item no.: CB01060044
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 55 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 1997
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    Price: USD 195.00

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    DIAMOND EMPIRE

    By Janine Roberts

    This astonishing documentary investigates how an advertising slogan invented by Madison Avenue executives in 1948 has come to define our most intimate and romantic rituals and ideals. The Diamond Empire, which sent shockwaves through the transnational diamond industry when it first appeared, systematically takes apart the myth that "diamonds are forever."

    It exposes how one white South African family, through a process of monopoly and fantasy, managed to exert control over the global flow of diamonds and change the very way we think about courtship, marriage, and love - an achievement all the more stunning given that diamonds are in fact neither scarce nor imperishable. Zeroing in on how "the diamond empire" managed to convert something valueless into one of the most coveted commodities in history, the film provides a riveting look at how marketing and consumer culture shape not only global trade and economics, but also our very identities.

    Reviews
  • "In all my years of teaching, this is the single most important video I have ever shown. No film has proven as successful in showing students how a major part of their identities has been constructed by a corporate, commercial culture. This movie changes the way we see the world." - Sut Jhally, Department of Communications, Umass Amherst

    Item no.: TK01060074
    Format: DVD (With English Subtitles)
    Duration: 102 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 1994
    StdBkNo.: 1932869204
    Price: USD 195.00

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    KILLING SCREENS, THE: MEDIA & THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE

    Gerbner urges us to think about the psychological, political, social, and developmental consequences of growing up and living within a cultural environment of pervasive, ritualized violent images.

    Item no.: VK01060022
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 37 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 1994
    StdBkNo.: 1893521524
    Price: USD 195.00

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    MANY WAYS TO SEE THE WORLD: A THIRTY-MINUTE TOUR OF WORLD MAP IMAGES

    By Ruth Abramms. Directed by Bob Abramms.

    Based on the popular and provocative book, Seeing Through Maps, this new DVD provides a fascinating 30-minute exploration into the minds of twelve mapmakers and how their unique backgrounds, philosophies, values, and politics led each to select a particular mathematical formula to create their maps. Learn about the impact those world images have had on us, consciously and unconsciously. An invaluable resource for classes dealing with issues of cultural bias and ethnocentrism. Includes over 70 Powerpoint images and more.

    Item no.: VN01060064
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 30 minutes
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    Price: USD 89.00

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