The MEF Media Studies & Communication Collection

This collection consists of the films in the MEF catalog that address issues of media ownership and its affect on content, representation, advertising, journalism, and other issues central to media studies. It is a must-have for Communication and Media Studies Departments and excellent for Journalism, Sociology, and Anthropology Departments. We offer 1 or 3 year hosted streaming subscriptions to this collection.

Includes the following titles:

Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Advertising & the End of the World
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
Beyond Good & Evil: Children, Media & Violent Times
Beyond the Straight and Narrow: Queer & Trans Television in the Age of Streaming
Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs
Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream
The Bro Code: How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom
Class Dismissed: How Television Frames the Working Class
The Codes of Gender: Identity & Performance in Pop Culture
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public
Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood
Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco
The Diamond Empire
Digital Disconnect
The Divide: What Happens When the Rich Get Richer?
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video [Full Length & Abridged Versions]
Dysfunctional Societies
Education, Inc.
Edward Said: On Orientalism
Emma
The Empathy Gap
Framing An Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
Further Off the Straight & Narrow: New Gay Visibility on Television, 1998-2006
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
Generation M: Misogyny in Media & Culture
The Gloucester 18: The Realities of Teen Pregnancy
The Great White Hoax: Donald Trump & the Politics of Race & Class in America
Guyland: Where Boys Become Men
Healing From Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes [Full Length & Abridged Versions]
The Hollywood Librarian
The Illusionists
In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts
Independent Media in a Time of War
Joystick Warriors: Video Games, Violence & the Culture of Militarism
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women
The Last Interview: Stuart Hall on the Politics of Cultural Studies
Latinos Beyond Reel: Challenging a Media Stereotype
Live From Bethlehem
The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics From Nixon to Trump
Many Ways to See the World
The Mean World Syndrome
Michael Kimmel: On Gender
Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood, & Corporate Power
Militainment, Inc.: Militarism & Pop Culture
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
More Than A Word
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News
No Logo: Brands, Globalization & Resistance
Not Just A Game: Power, Politics & American Sports
The Occupation of the American Mind
Off the Straight & Narrow: Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals & Television (1967-1998)
Over 18
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need
Pack of Lies: The Advertising of Tobacco
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Personally Speaking: An In-depth Conversation with Stuart Hall
Playing Unfair: The Media Image of the Female Athlete
Pornland: How the Porn Industry has Hijacked Our Sexuality
The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality & Relationships
The Purity Myth: The Virginity Movement’s War Against Women
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Remote Control: Children, Media Consumption, & the Changing American Family
Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture
Requiem for the American Dream
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Robert Scheer: Above the Fold
Shop ‘Til You Drop: The Crisis of Consumerism
Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness
The Souls of Black Girls
Speak Up!: Improving the Lives of GLBT Youth
Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies & Alcohol
Spitting Game: The College Hookup Culture
Stuart Hall: Race, the Floating Signifier
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Stuart Hall: The Origins of Cultural Studies
Teen Sexuality in a Culture of Confusion
Television Event
Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity [Full Length & Abridged Versions]
Tough Guise 2: Violence, Manhood & American Culture
Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: The Public Relations Industry Unspun
TV Family
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
What A Girl Wants
White Like Me: Race, Racism & White Privilege in America
Wrestling With Manhood
You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity

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