This series consists of:

>>> Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes -- This film provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. Director Byron Hurt pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of manhood.

>>> bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation In this two-part interview, illustrated with many of the media images she critiques, bell hooks, one of America's most accessible public intellectuals, makes a compelling case for the transformative power of cultural criticism.

>>> Edward Said: On Orientalism -- Since its publication in 1978, Edward Said's book Orientalism has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines. In this engaging and lavishly illustrated interview, Said, the late acclaimed author, cultural critic, and political commentator, discusses 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 mass media.

>>> Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media -- In this accessible introductory lecture, Stuart Hall focuses on the concept of "representation" -- one of the key ideas of cultural studies -- and shows how reality, never experienced directly, is filtered through symbolic cultural categories.

>>> Stuart Hall: Race, the Floating Signifier -- Arguing against the biological interpretation of racial differences, Stuart Hall asks viewers to pay close attention to the cultural processes by and through which the visible differences of appearance come to stand for natural or biological properties of human beings.

>>> Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Villifies a People -- 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.

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Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes, bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation and Reel Bad Arabs are only available on DVD, regardless whether you purchase the DVD or VHS series.

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