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Spin the Bottle

Sex, Lies & Alcohol

Spin the Bottle

Duration: 45 min
ISBN: 1-893521-89-3
Date Produced: 2004
Subtitles: English & Spanish

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Spin the Bottle
Sex, Lies & Alcohol


Spin the Bottle offers an indispensable critique of the role that contemporary popular culture plays in glamorizing excessive drinking and high-risk behaviors. Award-winning media critics Jackson Katz and Jean Kilbourne contrast these distorted representations with the often disturbing and dangerous ways that alcohol consumption affects the lives of real young men and women. Illustrating their analysis with numerous examples, Katz and Kilbourne decode the power and influence these seductive media images have in shaping gender identity, which is linked to the use of alcohol. Nowhere is this link more cause for concern than on America's college campuses.

By exploring the college party scene, Spin the Bottle shows the difficulties students have in navigating a cultural environment saturated with messages about gender and alcohol. Interviews with campus health professionals provide a clear picture of how drinking impacts student health and academic performance, but it is the students' own experiences and reflections that tell the real story behind alcohol's alluring public image.

Spin the Bottle concludes with concrete strategies for countering the ubiquitous presence of alcohol propaganda and challenges young people to make conscious decisions about their own lives.

Sections: Get This Party Started: Glamorizing Alcohol | Under the Influence: Men & Alcohol | Message in a Bottle: Women & Drinking | Courage in a Can: Alcohol & Sex | Body Shots: Alcohol, Sex & Violence | Last Call: Changing the Culture

Filmmaker Info

Producer & Editor: Ronit Ridberg
Executive Producers: Loretta Alper, Sut Jhally
Camera: Kelly Garner, David Rabinovitz
Motion Graphics: Alisa Placas
Audio Engineering & Sound Design: Thom Monahan
Second Camera: Kenyon King, Jeremy Smith
Sound Recording: Jeremy Smith
Assistant Producer: Jeremy Earp

Film Festivals

Official Selection, 2004 Girl Fest Hawai'i

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Praise for the Film

"Spin the Bottle presents a fresh new challenge to critically analyze the impact of alcohol on our relationships,health, and ultimately our future."
- Sally Laskey | Associate Director, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

"Media critics Jackson Katz and Jean Kilbourne have done it again... A dramatic and sobering assessment of alcohol use, abuse, and the targeted marketing of young people; this video should be required viewing--from high school to college and beyond."
- Frank Baker | Media Educator

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