Media Education Foundation

Mean World Syndrome: Media & the Cultivation of Violence

MEF Honors the Life & Work of Howard Zinn

New Releases

	Blind Spot Peak Oil & the Coming Global Crisis 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. more...
	Codes of Gender Identity and Performance in Pop Culture Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape. more...
	Plunder The Crime of Our Time Exposes the forces responsible for the loss of trillions of dollars and millions of jobs, and investigates the unregulated fraud and theft that led to the market's collapse in fall 2008. more...
	Red Moon Menstruation, Culture & the Politics of Gender Provides a fascinating, often ironic, take on the absurd and frequently dangerous cultural stigmas and superstitions that have long attached themselves to women's menstruation. more...
	Shop 'Til You Drop The Crisis of Consumerism Taking aim at fast-lane materialism, this film moves beneath the seductive surfaces of the commercial world to show how the flip side of accumulation is depletion. more...
	The Line The Line is a powerful, personal narrative about the terrible reality of rape and sexual violence -- and the more complicated and ambivalent ways sexual assault is often framed and understood in the wider culture. more...
	The Mean World Syndrome Media Violence & the Cultivation of Fear A new film based on the late George Gerbner's groundbreaking analysis of media influence and media violence. more...

Best Sellers

	Consuming Kids The Commercialization of Childhood The explosive growth of the youth marketing industry, and how it is undermining children and childhood. more...
	Dreamworlds 3 (Unabridged) Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video Sut Jhally's groundbreaking analysis of music videos: how they reflect, and shape, our ideas about gender, sexuality, and race. more...
	Generation M Misogyny in Media & Culture How negative, hateful attitudes toward women and femininity are being perpetuated at the very heart of American popular culture. more...
	Hip-Hop (Unabridged) Beyond Beats & Rhymes As seen on PBS and at Sundance, a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. more...
	Killing Us Softly 3 Advertising's Image of Women Jean Kilbourne's groundbreaking analysis of advertising's depiction of women and femininity. more...
	Spin the Bottle Sex, Lies & Alcohol Jackson Katz & Jean Kilbourne on how contemporary popular culture glamorizes binge drinking and the high-risk behaviors it can lead to. more...
	Tough Guise (Unabridged) Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity Jackson Katz's pioneering and influential examination of how American popular culture glorifies violent masculinity. more...