Wrestling with Manhood is the first educational program to pay attention to the enormous popularity of professional wrestling among male youth, addressing its relationship to real-life violence and probing the social values that sustain it as a powerful cultural force. Richly illustrating their analysis with numerous examples, Sut Jhally and Jackson Katz - the award-winning creators of the videos Dreamworlds and Tough Guise, respectively - offer a new way to think about the enduring problems of men�s violence against women and bullying in our schools.

Drawing the connection between professional wrestling and the construction of contemporary masculinity, they show how so-called "entertainment" is related to homophobia, sexual assault and relationship violence. They further argue that to not engage with wrestling in a serious manner allows cynical promoters of violence and sexism an uncontested role in the process by which boys become "men."

Designed to engage the wrestling fan as well as the cultural analyst, Wrestling with Manhood will provoke spirited debate about some of our most serious social problems.

The DVD includes two versions of Wrestling with Manhood. Both contain violent physical and sexual imagery, and viewer discretion is strongly advised. The abridged version is edited for profanity, nudity, and length.

SECTIONS: Taking Wrestling Seriously / Happy & Escalating Violence / Making Men: Glamorizing Bullying / Homophobia & Constructing Heterosexuality / Divas: Sex & Male Fantasy / Normalizing Gender Violence / It's Only Entertainment�

Writer & Director: Sut Jhally
Producer: Ronit Ridberg
Editors: Ronit Ridberg & Sut Jhally

Jackson Katz (Ed.M., Harvard) is a former all-star football player who was the first man at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to earn a minor in women's studies. He is the founder and director of MVP Strategies, an organization that provides gender violence prevention training to colleges, high schools, professional and college sports teams, community groups, corporations, and the U.S. Military (including the first world-wide program in the history of the Marine Corps). He has lectured at hundreds of schools and colleges across the nation.

www.jacksonkatz.com

Sut Jhally is a professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and founder and executive director of The Media Education Foundation in Northampton. He is one of the most popular teachers at the University of Massachusetts and is nationally known among college students for his videotape Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video,which he created to present his critique of representations of women in popular culture and commercial images. This video received national press after MTV threatened with a lawsuit. The national recognition and numerous requests for copies of the video led to the founding of The Media Education Foundation in 1991. The Media Education Foundation started with the aim to make academic research accessible to the popular culture and non-specialist realm. Over the past ten years, Sut Jhally has been the executive producer of more than twenty videos produced and distributed by the Media Education Foundation.

As an author, his written work includes, The Codes of Advertising,co-author of Social Communication in Advertising, and Enlightened Racism. He is also co-editor of Cultural Politics in Contemporary America. He has written broadly on issues of popular representation and is regarded as one of the world's leading cultural studies scholar in the area of advertising, media, and consumption.

For questions regarding appearances, please go to www.sutjhally.com

October 19, 2002 | ACME Conference | Albuquerque, NM

June 28, 2003 | AMLA Conference | Baltimore, MD

October 17 & 18, 2003 | Museum of Fine Arts | Boston, MA

Coming soon.