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	Advertising & the End of the World Featuring Sut Jhally Sut Jhally exposes the inherent conflict between commercial culture and environmental stewardship. more...
	Behind the Screens Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial The trend toward hypercommercialism in Hollywood film: product placement, tie-ins, merchandising, and cross-promotions. more...
	Capitalism Hits the Fan Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown Rick Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and reflective of failures within American-style capitalism. more...
	Captive Audience Advertising Invades the Classroom The rise of advertising in schools and how it is compromising the mission of American public education. more...
	Class Dismissed How TV Frames the Working Class Television's long history of misrepresenting working class people and glossing over struggles for economic justice. more...
	Consuming Kids The Commercialization of Childhood The explosive growth of the youth marketing industry, and how it is undermining children and childhood. more...
	Crisis of the Cultural Environment Media & Democracy in the 21st Century Only $15! George Gerbner's indictment of how the so-called "information superhighway" is being developed. more...
	Freedom of Expression Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property How intellectual property laws are undermining creativity and restricting free expression. more...
	In Debt We Trust America Before the Bubble Bursts Reporter Danny Schechter investigates the frightening scale and scope of American debt culture. more...
	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...
	Mickey Mouse Monopoly Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power A critical examination of Disney films and the stories they tell about race, gender, and class. more...
	Money for Nothing Behind the Business of Pop Music An inside view of how popular music gets produced and marketed at the expense of creativity, originality, and free artistic expression. more...
	No Logo Brands, Globalization & Resistance Bestselling author Naomi Klein's account of the rise of international branding and the anti-corporate movements it has inspired. more...
	Overspent American Why We Want What We Don't Need Juliet Schor scrutinizes how our commercial media system has shaped and reinforced a national phenomenon of upscale spending. 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...
	Remote Control Children, Media Consumption & the Changing American Family Offers a fascinating look at the centrality of media in our children's lives. more...