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Culture & Politics in Media

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Adult Entertainment: Disrobing An American Idol

A fresh social and political look at the $57 billion-a-year Adult Entertainment Industry and its affects on 3 subjects who agree to view porn 1 hour a day for 30 days.

Shady strip club owners, angry strippers, crass porn stars, top-of-their-game experts and 3 unknowing subjects hammer out an uncomfortable…

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Advertising & the End of the World

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…

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American Cannibal

 

 

American Cannibal takes the reality television craze to it's logical and disturbing conclusion as Dave Roberts and…

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Animania

Japanese anime is the biggest thing to come out of the East since Godzilla. It's featured on clothing, food, television, video games and for some, has become a way of life.

With the introduction of such popular anime series as Pokemon and Sailor Moon, some anime fans have taken their…

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Behind the Screens: Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial

Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of studios and their owners, rather than entertainment in their own right.

Behind the Screens explores this trend toward "hypercommercialism" through phenomena such as product placement, tie-ins, merchandising and cross-promotions. It combines multiple examples taken directly from…

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Beyond Good & Evil: Children, Media & Violent Times

The belief that good triumphs over evil resonates deeply in our psyche through religious, cultural, and political discourses. It is also a common theme in the entertainment media where the struggle between good and evil is frequently resolved through violence. The potential negative impact of media violence on children has…

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Chile: Hasta Cuando?

A portrait of a brutal military dictatorship made during a three month visit to Chile in 1985 by David Bradbury. The footage reveals a country torn with civil strife and political unrest.

 

Directed by David Bradbury.

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Consuming Kids

With virtually no government or public outcry, the multi-billion dollar youth marketing industry has been able to use the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. American kids now influence an estimated $700…

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Fog and Friction

Modern war is complicated. The media and army become intertwined. The world perceives war through the eyes of the journalists and sometimes even the military does. Strategists refer to the two fundamentals of…

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Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property

In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) trademarked the phrase “freedom of expression”—a startling comment on the way that intellectual property law restricts creativity and expression of ideas. This provocative and amusing documentary explores the battles being waged in courts, classrooms,…

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Growing Up In Videoworld Media & The Developing Child

Mass media and children. Forty hours are used to measure a typical work week. Today that figure measures how much time an average kid spends using electronic media. Learn what dangers TV and video games pose to the developing child. Examine how life in a video world steals time from…

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Heroes of Our Time

We are living in a time of threatening conflict. We feel our survival jeopardised by wars in the Middle East, Central Africa and South Africa. But there is another war, a global conflict more devastating and more uncertain in its outcome, a war that poses the ultimate question of survival…

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