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Billionaires' Tea Party, The

Billionaires' Tea Party, The

How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolution

Examines how corporate elites are exploiting the anxieties of ordinary Americans to advance a narrow, often anti-democratic, agenda. more...

Bro Code, The

Bro Code, The

How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men

Takes aim at the forces in male culture that condition boys and men to dehumanize and disrespect women. more...

Five Friends

Five Friends

Beautifully shot, Five Friends follows a 65-year-old man and his 5 closest friends as they navigate and reflect on success, conflict, marriage, divorce, fatherhood, children, and dying. more...

How To Start a Revolution

How To Start a Revolution

Now Available! How an obscure list of non-violent actions authored by Gene Sharp in 1973 has served as a blueprint for anti-authoritarian revolts everywhere from Eastern Europe and the Balkans to the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. more...

Just Do It

Just Do It

A Tale of Modern-Day Outlaws

Just Do It gives us a thrilling inside look at the kinds of direct-action campaigns that are now sweeping the globe in local Occupy movements, showing us how everyday people can use the tools of civil disobedience to make meaningful change. more...

Latinos Beyond Reel

Latinos Beyond Reel

Challenging a Media Stereotype

In Production! Uncovers simultaneous patterns of gross misrepresentation and under-representation of Latinos in mass media. more...

Mic Check

Mic Check

Documentary Shorts from the Occupy Movement

Made by Occupy protestors, these short films offer snapshots of a movement in progress -- a vivid glimpse into the human costs of Wall Street's rapacious behavior, and twenty-first century activism. more...

Not Just a Game

Not Just a Game

Power, Politics & American Sports

Dave Zirin demonstrates how gender, race, and politics intersect with sports. more...

Returning Fire

Returning Fire

Interventions in Video Game Culture

A new documentary about video game violence that forces all of us -- gamers and non-gamers alike -- to think critically about what it means when the tools of war become forms of consumer play. more...

The Purity Myth

The Purity Myth

The Virginity Movement's War Against Women

Now Available! Pioneering feminist blogger Jessica Valenti targets the myth that the worth of a woman depends on what she does or does not do sexually. more...

Understanding Hookup Culture

Understanding Hookup Culture

What's Really Happening on College Campuses

This lecture by Stanford University's Paula England, a leading researcher in the sociology of gender, examines the phenomenon of hooking up. more...

Best Sellers Bestsellers

Codes of Gender, The

Codes of Gender, The

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...

Consuming Kids

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)

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. Important to any study of women in the media. more...

Generation M

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)

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 4

Killing Us Softly 4

Advertising's Image of Women

Jean Kilbourne's groundbreaking analysis of women in the media, focusing on advertising's depiction of women and femininity. more...

Mean World Syndrome, The

Mean World Syndrome, The

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...

Mickey Mouse Monopoly

Mickey Mouse Monopoly

Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power

A critical examination of Disney films and the stories they tell about race, gender, and class. more...

Spin the Bottle

Spin the Bottle

Sex, Lies & Alcohol

Media literacy experts Jackson Katz & Jean Kilbourne on how contemporary pop culture glamorizes binge drinking and the high-risk behaviors it can lead to. more...

The Line

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...

Tough Guise (Unabridged)

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...

Specials

specials
Killing Screens

Killing Screens

Media & the Culture of Violence

Only $15! George Gerbner explores the psychological, political, social, and developmental consequences of a violent cultural environment. more...

Material Witness (VHS)

Material Witness (VHS)

Race, Identity and the Politics of Gangsta Rap

VHS Sale $10! Michael Eric Dyson combines critical theory with an appreciation of popular culture, rap lyrics with classical poetry, and anecdotes of personal history with a sweeping geo-political analysis. more...

Media & Health Series

Media & Health Series

Discounted pricing for institutional customers. Buy these seven videos as a series & save 25%! more...

Media Education Resources

media education resources

Study Guides

Guides for using MEF films in the classroom. Including key points, discussion questions, and writing exercises. more...

Handouts

Activities and statistics related to key issues in media education. Can be downloaded and distributed. more...

Transcripts

Full transcripts of MEF films. more...

MEF Bookstore

Books by scholars featured in MEF films. more...

Press Room

Resources for journalists and film festivals. more...

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