In this moving follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Hoop Dreams, award-winning filmmaker Frederick Marx continues his exploration of the lives of ordinary young men and the extraordinary challenges they face. Boys to Men? trains its focus on the pressures and expectations faced by a diverse group of young urban males. Using footage from anti-violence marches, Breaking Our Silence centers on community men speaking out against violence and domestic abuse. NOW AVAILABLE Dreamworlds 3, the highly anticipated update of Sut Jhally's groundbreaking Dreamworlds 2 (1995), examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and encourages viewers to consider how these narratives shape individual and cultural attitudes about sexuality. Dreamworlds 3 (the abridged version), is the highly anticipated update of Sut Jhally's groundbreaking Dreamworlds 2 (1995). The film examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and encourages viewers to consider how these narratives shape individual and cultural attitudes about sexuality. This important new documentary picks up where Off the Straight & Narrow: Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals & Television (1998) left off. Against the backdrop of political and social issues affecting the GLBT community, Further Off the Straight & Narrow takes a close look at sitcoms, reality shows, and premium cable programming as it explores how representations of GLBT characters have become more complex and varied in recent years. Video and computer games represent a $6 billion a year industry. One out of every ten households in American owns a Sony Playstation. Children who own video game equipment play an average of ten hours per week. And yet, despite capturing the attention of millions of children worldwide, video games remain one of the least scrutinized cultural industries. This compelling new documentary focuses on the sexual dilemmas and difficult life choices young girls face as they come of age in contemporary American culture. Challenging long-held myths about girlhood, the film draws on the insights of girls themselves to explore and shed light on their actual lived experience as they navigate our increasingly hyper-sexualized society. Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. This documentary pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of manhood. Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. This documentary pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of manhood. This award-winning documentary links everyday black men from various socioeconomic backgrounds with some of Black America's most progressive academics, social critics and authors to provide an engaging, candid dialogue on black masculine identity in American culture. This educational "kit"--which includes a 15-minute video, a discussion and resource guide, an informational poster, and colorful "Safe Space" stickers--is intended to help coaches/teachers, parents, and school administrators educate students/athletes about the harmful effects of homophobia. This series consists of: Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity; Wrestling with Manhood: Boys, Bullying and Battering; and Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies and Alcohol. Buy these three videos as a series and save 15% off their individual prices! This series consists of: Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women; Spin the Botte: Sex, Lies & Alcohol; Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness; and Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco. Buy these four videos as a series and save 15% off their individual prices! Jean Kilbourne's pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning Killing us Softly films have influenced millions of college and high school students across two generations and on an international scale. In this important new film, Kilbourne reviews if and how the image of women in advertising has changed over the last 20 years. This series consists of: Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes; Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women; Game Over; Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (full length); Wrestling With Manhood: Boys, Bullying & Battering (full length); Boys to Men?; and War Zone. Buy these seven videos as a series and save 25% off their individual prices! This series consists of: off the Straight & Narrow: Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals & Television, 1967-1998; Further Off the Straight & Narrow: New Gay Visibility on Television, 1998-2006; Speak Up!: Improving the Lives of GLBT Youth; and Playing Unfair: The Media Image of the Female Athlete. Buy these four videos as a series and save 25% off their individual prices! This series consists of: Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes; Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women; Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (full length); Wrestling With Manhood: Boys, Bullying & Battering (full length); Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games; and War Zone. Buy these six films as a series and save 25% off their individual prices! In this powerful new lecture, renowned speaker and bestselling author Michael Kimmel (The Gendered Society, Manhood in America) turns this conventional wisdom on its head. With clarity and humor, Kimmel moves beyond the popular inter-planetary notion that 'men are from Mars and women are from Venus' to advance a decidedly more earth-bound and inter-connected view of the things men and women have in common. How are we to make sense of the transformation in gay representation-- from virtual invisibility before 1970 to the "gay chic" of today? Off the Straight & Narrow is the first in-depth documentary to cast a critical eye over the growth of gay images on TV. Leading media scholars provide the historical and cultural context for exploring the social implications of these new representations. This box set includes both Off the Straight & Narrow and the newly released Further Off the Straight & Narrow. Buy these two videos together and save 15% off their individual prices! Although the Landmark 1972 Title IX law granted female athletes equality in the eyes of the law, the male-dominated world of sports journalism has been much slower to adapt, with coverage of female sports still lagging far behind that of men. Playing Unfair is the first film to critically examine this post-Title IX media environment in terms of the representation of female athletes. It demonstrates that while men's identities in sports are equated with deeply held values of courage, strength and endurance, the accomplishments of female athletes are framed very differently and in much more stereotypical ways. In this exclusive, illustrated video, Mary Pipher, Ph.D., discusses the challenges facing today's teenagers, especially girls, as well as the role of media and popular culture in shaping their identities. She offers concrete ideas for girls and boys, families, teachers, and schools to help girls free themselves from the toxic influences of today's media-saturated culture. Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) students and their allies face unique challenges of violence and harassment in schools. SPEAK UP! explores what these students and their allies have done to transform their schools into safer and more welcoming environments. Interviews with students, parents, teachers, administrators and national activists highlight not only the need for transformation, but offer resources and advice for those actively working for change. Jean Kilbourne's award-winning video offers an in-depth analysis of how female bodies are depicted in advertising images and the devastating effects of those images on women's health. Addressing the relationship between these images and the obsession of girls and women with dieting and thinness, Slim Hopes offers a new way to think about life-threatening eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, and a well-documented critical perspective on the social impact of advertising. This video explores the forces influencing young people's decisions about sex: media, friends, family, religion, love, AIDS, alcohol, and homophobia. Teen Sexuality in a Culture of Confusion is a unique, accessible tool for facilitating an informed, balanced discussion about these and other influences on young people. In the age of AIDS, such talk can save lives. When young people tell their own stories, their peers listen. In this program, award-winning documentarian and photojournalist Dan Habib features the stories of eight young people, ages 16-24. Two of the eight talk about living with AIDS. How did date rape shift from a "shockingly frequent... outrage," as Newsweek once called it, to a controversy over "crying rape," as New York magazine later labeled it? Susan Faludi, bell hooks, Mary Koss, Katha Pollitt, Neil Malamuth, and ohters, analyze a classical case study in media "backlash." While the social construction of femininity has been widely examined, the dominant role of masculinity has until recently remained largely invisible. Tough Guise is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century. This 57-minute abridged version of Tough Guise has been edited for length and verbal profanity and is recommended for high school audiences. What does it feel like to be a woman on the street in a cultural environment that does nothing to discourage men from heckling, following, touching or disparaging women in public spaces? Filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West believes that the streets are a War Zone for women. Armed with only a video-camera, she both demonstrates this experience and, by turning and confronting her abusers, reclaims space that was stolen from her. During the spring of 2000, eleven girls aged 8 to 16 from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds and two classrooms of middle and high school students were interviewed about their views on media culture and its impact on their lives. As professional wrestling explodes in popularity with male audiences, Wrestling with Manhood not only addresses the questions of whether wrestling is "real or fake" or causes imitative violence, but also penetrates down to the deep-rooted social values that sustain and nourish it as a powerful cultural force at the dawn of the 21st century.

Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. In this important new video, Jean Kilbourne exposes the manipulative marketing strategies and tactics used by the tobacco and alcohol industries to keep Americans hooked on their dangerous products. Illustrating her analysis with hundreds of advertising examples, Kilbourne casts a critical eye on the corporate interests that lie behind the industries whose products kill more than 450,000 Americans each year. This series consists of: Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies & Alcohol; Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness; Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco; Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls; Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs; and Recovering Bodies: Overcoming Eating Disorders. Buy these six videos as a series and save 25% off their individual prices! Pack of Lies reveals, with powerful insider information, the deception of tobacco industry claims that they do not seek to addict children to nicotine. It provides important analytical background from which to view the current debate. Eating disorders among the young are a serious public health concern. In Recovering Bodies the stories and testimonies of seven college students show the wide range of pressures that can lead to disordered eating, as well as the variety of psychological and physical symptoms involved. Jean Kilbourne's award-winning video offers an in-depth analysis of how female bodies are depicted in advertising images and the devastating effects of those images on women's health. Addressing the relationship between these images and the obsession of girls and women with dieting and thinness, Slim Hopes offers a new way to think about life-threatening eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, and a well-documented critical perspective on the social impact of advertising. Alcohol is linked to a high number of unnecessary student deaths, injuries and sexual assaults every year. Yet in its portrayal in popular culture, alcohol offers a release from inhibitions and a path to happiness. Using numerous examples from the media, as well as interviews with college students, award-winning media critics Jean Kilbourne & Jackson Katz focus on the normalization of alcohol abuse. Spin the Bottle is the first educational program to step beyond an analysis of �binge drinking� to focus on techniques that alcohol marketers use to link the product to the fragile gender identities of young men and women. Do politically expedient proposals for more testing prepare children for the challenges of the 21st century? What is the role of schools in a time when the mass media are children’s most frequent teachers? In Tomorrow's Children, based on her groundbreaking book of the same name, Riane Eisler offers a practical blueprint for transforming how we educate our children and ourselves.

This personal narrative tells the story of a children's theatre group on the West Bank. Devastating and shocking, the film reveals the tragedy and horror of lives trapped by the circumstances of the Israeli occupation. This series consists of: On Orientalism and The Myth of the 'Clash of Civilizations' Edward Said's book Orientalism has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978. In this engaging and lavishly illustrated interview he talks about the context within which the book was conceived, its main themes, and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of "the Orient" as represented in the mass media. The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist on Pennsylvania's death row in connection with the death of a police officer, had become by the late 1990s a global symbol of inequities in the U.S. judicial system. The mainstream media could no longer ignore it, but how would they cover such a hotly disputed case and the questions of judicial bias that it raises? Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. This documentary pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of manhood. This award-winning documentary links everyday black men from various socioeconomic backgrounds with some of Black America's most progressive academics, social critics and authors to provide an engaging, candid dialogue on black masculine identity in American culture. This series consists of: Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Edward Said: On Orientalism; Edward Said: The Myth of the 'Clash of Civilizations'; Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People; and Arna's Children: How the Children of a Palestinian Theatre Group got Involved in the Intifadah. Buy these five videos as a series and save 25% off their individual prices! This pivotal video exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--working in combination with Israeli public relations strategies--exercise a powerful influence over news reporting about the Middle East conflict. Combining American & British TV news clips and interviews with analysts, journalists, and activists, Peace, Propaganda, & the Promised Land exposes frequently biased, pro-Israeli reporting and how it shapes American perceptions. This series consists of the following videos: Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes; bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation; Edward Said: On Orientalism; Stuart Hall: Race, the Floating Signifier; Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media; and Reel Bad Arabs. Buy these six videos as a series and save 25% off their individual prices! Arguing against the biological interpretation of racial difference, Hall asks us to pay close attention to the cultural processes by which the visible differences of appearance come to stand for natural or biological properties of human beings. Drawing upon the work of writers such as Frantz Fanon, he shows how race is a "discursive construct" and, because its meaning is never fixed, can be described as a "floating signifier." Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, this groundbreaking documentary dissects the slanderous representation of Arabs throughout cinematic history, which has run virtually unchallenged from the earliest days of silent films to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. In this accessible introductory lecture, Hall focuses on the concept of "representation"-- one of the key ideas of cultural studies-- and shows how reality is never experienced directly, but always through the symbolic categories made available by society. In this classic 1989 lecture, now available for the first time, 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. In this important lecture delivered at the University of Massachusetts, Said takes aim at one of the central tenets of recent foreign policy thinking-- that conflicts between different and "clashing civilizations" (Western, Islamic, Confucian) characterize the contemporary world. In this spellbinding lecture, the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son offers a unique, inside-out view of race and racism in America. Expertly overcoming the defensiveness that often surrounds these issues, Wise provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color, but to white people as well. bell hooks is one of America's most accessible public intellectuals. In this two-part video, extensively illustrated with many of the images under analysis, she makes a compelling argument for the transformative power of cultural criticism.

Advertising & the End of the World features an illustrated presentation by Sut Jhally of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the producer and writer of the award-winning Dreamworlds II. Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, he asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this market-based view of the world: Do our present arrangements deliver what they claim-- happiness and satisfaction? Can we think about our collective as well as our private interests? And, can we think long-term as well as short-term? A compilation of 9 short "news documentaries" exploring issues ranging from the violent diamond trade to the business of hip-hop music. Featuring commentary by media experts, political leaders and scholars, with music cuts by top recording artists like Peter Gabriel and the Beastie Boys.