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Know Media’s MEDIA LITERACY VIDEO LIBRARY – Updated May 2009


Know Media offers the following resources to use for free in classrooms and communities in Windham County. Please preview any borrowed material to determine appropriate age/audience content. Rental policy is located on the back of this list. Please call Robin at (802) 257-2885 for more information.

 

VIDEO(V) and DVD’s(D):               

                                                           

Ad and the Ego  (VHS)                                                                                        HS, Adult                          

Documentary examining advertising and our culture of consumption.

Study Guide: robwilliamsmedia.com/downloads/robwilliams_adego.pdf

1996  57 min

Ad-Libbing It (VHS)                                                                                        MS, HS

An irreverent look at how advertisers try to hook young people on cigarettes and alcohol.

Humorous program that exposes advertising practices and shows viewers how they are manipulated.

1993  17 min

Addiction: Why Can’t They Just Stop        (DVD)                                    MS, HS, Adult

14 part documentary series helping people understand addiction as a treatable brain disease. Includes personal stories, common misconceptions are replaced into addiction’s complexity.

90 min

Advertising and the End of the World (VHS)                                                        HS, Adult                           Making the connection between society's high-consumption lifestyle and the coming environmental crisis, Jhally forces us to evaluate the physical and material costs of the consumer society and how long we can maintain our present level of production. Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

1997        40 min

Affluenza (VHS)

Consumerism - A 1-hour PBS special hosted by Scott Simon.  Intended to stimulate discussion and encourage people to take the first steps to reduce their consumption. 

Study Guide available at www.pbs.org/affluenza Arlenes

1997

 

Behind the Screens: Hollywood goes Hypercommercial (VHS)                 MS,HS, Adult                          

Product placement in Hollywood movies – great clips and interviews. Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2000        37 min

Beyond Good and Evil : Children, Media & Violent Times (VHS/DVD)               HS, Adult

This video examines how the "good and evil" rhetoric, in both the entertainment and the news media, has helped children to dehumanize the enemies.

2003  35 min

Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs (DVD)   HS, Adult

Focusing on the industry's marketing practices, media scholars & health professionals help viewers understand the ways in which direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use of prescription medication.

2006  45 min

Buy and Bye: The Rest of the Cycle (VHS)                                                 All ages

Video to increase the understanding of the process of recycling, so that people will make informed choices to manage their waste in an environmentally sound matter. Windham Solid Waste – environmental impact of consumerism.

2000

Calling the Shots (VHS)                                                                                       8th grade and up

Examines the images used by advertisers to sell alcohol; based on lectures, slide presentations, and research by Jean Kilbourne. Second edition to "Calling the Shots."

1991  30 min      

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom  (VHS)                                  HS, Adult

A compelling exposé of the transformation of classrooms, hallways, cafeterias, & textbooks into advertising vehicles. It explores how education is short-changed and democracy is at risk when schools become marketplaces &commercialism goes to the head of the class. Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2003  45 min

Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (DVD)                        HS, Adult           

This documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV's disturbing depictions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants -- stereotypical portrayals that reinforce the myth of meritocracy. 

Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/ 

2006     62 min

 

Constructing Public Opinion (VHS)                                                          HS, Adult

Professor Justin Lewis demonstrates the way in which polling data are themselves used by the media to not just reflect what Americans think but instead to construct public opinion itself.

2001  32 min

Crisis of the Cultural Environment (VHS)                                       HS, Adult

Turning to issues of media policy, George Gerbner delivers a stinging indictment of the way the so called "information superhighway" is being constructed.

1997  30 min

Culture Jammers (VHS)                                                                                                          HS, Adult

Clips/television uncommercials (these come from Adbusters magazine)

12 min

Deadly Persuasions:  The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco (VHS)                        8th grade and up Jean  Kilbourne exposes the manipulative marketing strategies and tactics used by the tobacco and

alcohol industries.   Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/ 

2003 60 min                                                                              

Dream Worlds 2: Desire, Sex and Power in Music Video (VHS)               Mature audience

Sut Jhally – Banned by MTV – combines powerful imagery from some two hundred videos with incisive narrative to educate viewers on the impact of sexual imagery in music videos.

Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

1995  55 Min

Dream Worlds 3: Desire, Sex and Power in Music Video (VHS)               Mature audience

Offers a unique and powerful tool for understanding both the continuing influence of music videos and how pop culture more generally filters the identities of young men and women through a dangerously narrow set of myths about sexuality and gender. Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2006 

Drinking it In (VHS)                                                                                  Ages 9-15

Documentary on advertising and alcohol, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Depicts how children are surrounded daily by alcohol messages.

2002     5 min

Electronic Storyteller (VHS)                                                             HS, Adult

Gerbner clearly and comprehensively outlines the way in which the universal story-telling function of human societies has been colonized by corporate media.

1997  30 min

Fair Use Toolkit for Documentary Filmmaking Fair Use & Free

Tools for Fair Use, Stories Untold Successful Fair Use: Examples, The Documentary Filmmakers' statement of Best Practices in Fair Use. Other tools: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/fair_use/

Free Speech For Sale (VHS-Copy)                                                                           HS, Adult

Video with Bill Moyers - Bill Moyers and key legal and public interest advocates examine how industries with deep pockets use their access to the media to overwhelm the public debate.

1999  57 minutes

Game Over (VHS/DVD)                                                                                                HS, Adult

Educational documentary on video and computer games, gender, race, violence, substance use.

Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2000 41 min

NEWGeneration M: Misogyny in Media and Culture                                          HS. Adult

A look at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media.

Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2008  54 minutes

Getting the Message Across (VHS)                                                                             MS, HS

Video about making videos-for students and others wishing to produce effective videos, not much on production as how to communicate forcefully by telling a story as well. 

1993  27 min   

NEWHip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes (DVD)                                                     Mature Audiences

A "loving critique" of a number of disturbing trends in the world of rap music. The Producer pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of manhood. Study Guide: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/

2006  60 min

Hijacking Catastrophe (VHS)                                                                                      HS, Adult

9/11 and the Bush administration documentary     Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/   

2003     64 min 

 

 

Independent Media in a Time of War (VHS)                                                        HS, Adult

Amy Goodman speaks about the corporate media's coverage of the 2003 Iraq War, asking her audience to consider the costs of coverage that is both sanitized and sensationalized. At the core of her lecture is a deep commitment to the ethics of journalism. Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2003 35 min

Killing Screens: Media and the Culture of Violence (DVD)                      HS, Adult

Video with George Gerbner addressing the question of violence and the media.

1994  37 min

Killing Us Softly 3 (VHS)                                                                                             HS, Adult

Jean Kilbourne – update of images of women, body image, tobacco, empowerment   

Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/     

2000 34 min                                  

Many Ways to See the World (DVD)                                                                         MS,HS, Adult

A tour of intriguing world map images. Includes power point images and links to map resources around the world.

2005 30 min

Making A Killing: Philip Morris, Kraft and Global Tobacco Addiction (VHS)

Documentary by INFACT, who is working to create grassroots movement to counter corporate tobacco and its effects worldwide. Youth and Adult

2000   29 min

Marketing Booze To Teens (VHS)                                                                              HS, Adult

Documentary on  alcopops (drinks mixed with alcohol)  and how sodas with alcohol are marketed to teens, a CSPI production.

2001

Merchants of Cool (VHS) (copy)                                                                                   MS, HS, Adult

Marketing “Cool” to Youth.  Study Guide: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/

2001  55 min

Mickey Mouse Monopoly(VHS/DVD)                                                                       8th grade and up

Gender/race representations, commercialization of children’s culture, Disney’s Media dominance.

Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2001  52 min

Money For Nothing (VHS)                                                                         HS, Adult

Popular music has historically been characterized by the greatest independence for artists and allowing access to a broader diversity of voices. However, this independence is being threatened by a shrinking number of record companies, the centralization of radio ownership and playlists, and the increasing integration of popular music into the broader advertising and commercial aspects of the market. Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2001  48 min

Myth of the Liberal Media (VHS)                                                               HS, Adult

Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." Instead they reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of "elite propaganda."

1997  60 min

No Logo: Brands, Globalization & Resistance (DVD)                           HS, Adult

Featuring Naomi Klein. Branding and commercialization, corporations and resistance.

Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2004     42 min

Off the Straight & Narrow: Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals & Television (VHS) HS, Adult
challenges viewers to consider the value and limits of available gay images: who is represented, what they get to say, and how people respond to them. The video is an invaluable tool for all educators interested in introducing students to issues of representation and diversity in the media. Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

1998  63 min

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch.s War on Journalism (VHS)                                 HS, Adult

Documentary on Fox network.

2004  77 min

Overspent American (VHS)                                                                        HS, Adult

Juliet Schor scrutinizes what she calls "the new consumerism"--a national phenomenon of upscale spending that is shaped and reinforced by a commercially-driven media system.

2004  32 min

Pack of Lies (VHS)                                                                                                          MS, HS, Adult

Jean Kilbourne- Advertising and Tobacco

1992  35 min

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (DVD)                                                                                                                              HS, Adult

A striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East.

Sutdy Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2004   80 min

Picture Perfect (VHS)                                                                                 MS, HS, Adult

Award winning documentary, lively and engaging on the impact of media on women and girls’ physical, psychological and emotional health.  Study Guide: http://www.fanlight.com/downloads/PicturePerfect.pdf

2002        40 min

Playing Unfair (VHS)                                                                      HS, Adult

The first video to critically examine the post-Title IX media landscape in terms of the representation of female athletes.  Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2002  35 min

Podcasting & Blogging Essentials (VDH)                                       MS, HS, Adult . Using plain English and plenty of visuals, Podcasting and Blogging Essentials spells out what podcasts and blogs are, how to find and access them on the Internet, and how to create them from scratch or upload them .

Race, The Floating Signifier (VHS)                                                 HS, Adult

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.

1997  62 min

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (DVD)                             HS, Adult

The most comprehensive review of Arab screen images ever published. Analyzing over 900 Hollywood films made from 1896 to 2004, Dr. Shaheen exposes American cinema's systematic and pervasive degradation and dehumanization of Arabs. Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2006  60 min

Representation and the Media (VHS and DVD):                                                                         HS, Adult

Video by Stuart Hall addressing representation and the central issues in cultural studies. 

1997  55 min

 

 

Reviving Ophelia (VHS/DVD)                                                                                                8th grade and above

Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls – includes ideas for youth and adults to free themselves of the toxic influences of today’s media-saturated culture. Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2000 35 min

Rich Media, Poor Democracy (DVD)                                                                          HS, Adult

Robert McChesney how journalism has been compromised by the corporate bosses of conglomerates.

Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2003   30 min

NEWShout It Out: The Real High School Musical (DVD)                           8th grade and above

Made in Vermont, musical based on the lives of Vermont Teens. Directed by Bess O’Brien

Study Guide soon available. Extra clips of production and interviews.

2008 90 min

Slim Hopes (VHS/DVD)                                                                                        8th grade and above

J.Kilbourne –advertising and the obsession with thinness. Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

1995  30 min

Smoke and Mirrors: A History of Denial (VHS)                                                8th grade and above

Excellent film documenting the rise of the cigarette and the tobacco industries subsequent attempt to conceal its link with cancer. Academy Award Winner

1999 75 min (2 parts).

Spin the Bottle :Sex, Lies and Alcohol (VHS)                                            HS, Adult

Critique of the role contemporary culture plays in glamorizing excessive drinking on college campuses. Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2004   44 min

Still Killing us Softly (VHS)                                                                                        MS, HS, Adult

Jean Kilbourne - An examination of the various sexist elements in advertising

1987  30 min

This Place (VHS)                                                                                       Adult, Community

A 15-min film that dramatically captures today's youth drinking culture. This film shows the alcohol-saturated environment kids are exposed to and the impact of underage drinking.  Very moving, action oriented, hope.     

2005   15 min

NEWTim Wise: On White Privilege                                                             HS, Adult

Offers a unique, inside-out view of racism and a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color but to white people as well.

2008 57 min

Tough Guise (VHS)                                                                                    HS, Adult

Examines the relationship between images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S.  Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

1999  57 min

Toxic Sludge is Good for You: The Public Relations Industry Unspun (VHS) HS, Adult

Narrated by Amy Goodman, -urges viewers to question the experts and follow the money back to the public relations industry to challenge its hold on democracy. Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2002        45 min

Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election  (VHS)                                               HS, Adult

 The riveting story about the battle for the Presidency in Florida.

2002        50 min

Voices Project (DVD)                                                                        MS, HS

Ground-breaking and moving original musical is based on the lives of Vermont teens. Based on the hopes, concerns, fears, ideas and opinions about growing up as a teenager in VT. Info:www.bcbsvt.com/voices

2006

Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price (DVD)                                           MS, HS, Adult

Documentary that takes viewers beyond the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities. A journey that challenges the way viewers shop.

2005  97 min

War Made Easy (DVD)                                                                     HS, Adult

By familiarizing viewers with the techniques of war propaganda, War Made Easy encourages viewers to think critically about the messages put out by today's spin doctors

2007        72 min

What a Girl Wants (VHS) 2000 – 33 mins -interviews with students (girls age 8 – 16)

juxtaposed with a typical week of TV broadcasting and ads.  Inspires girls to debate, and act as a catalyst for change.   Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/   

2000   33 mins                                                                         

Women & Cigarettes: A Fatal Attraction (VHS)                     MS, HS, Adult

TV program on women targets. Very good   Study Guide available from Robin at (802) 257-2885.

2002

Wrestling With Manhood: Boys, Bullying and Battering (VHS/DVD)      HS, Adult

This film addresses the enormous popularity of professional wrestling among male youth, and its relationship to real-life violence and probing the social values that sustain it as a powerful cultural force.  DVD has edited version with less violent scenes. Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/

2002 (45/65 min)

Toward a Drug Free America (VHS) Prevention Service Announcements on substances     

 CD/DVD ROM’S/Curriculum:

Blowing Away Tobacco’s Big Lies                                                             E, MS, HS

New Mexico Media Literacy Project Data CD

A data CD containing over 250 media examples (pictures and movie clips) with printable

discussion Guides for teachers, parents and workshop leaders. Content areas include tobacco

history, smoking in the movies, and tobacco around the globe.

2003

Media and Democracy                                                                                                   E, MS, HS

New Mexico Media Literacy Project Data CD

Over 40 lesson plans (K-12) examining the media's impact on US politics and government. Designed for grades K-12, the lessons help students deconstruct media messages, challenge conventional wisdom and become more informed, active participants in our democracy.

Media Literacy for Health: A K-12 Activity Curriculum                                     E, MS, HS

New Mexico Media Literacy Project CD-ROM

48 lesson plans combine media analysis and skill-building with important health information. All lesson plans can be printed from the CD-ROM, and feature step-by-step procedures with questions and answers. Includes over 150 media examples, web links, fact sheets and worksheets.

2001

NEWMedia Literacy Education and Production                                           MS, HS, Adult

Video examples youth-focused media created by Rob Williams and James Valstro. www.memefilms.org

2005

NEWMedia Literacy Toolbox                                                                              E, MS, HS

A complete introduction to media literacy concepts, skills and applications. It can help you improve your ability to access, analyze, evaluate and produce media messages of all kinds, and to become an active participant in our media culture.

20

NEWMerchants of Culture                                                                                               MS, HS

This CD ROM contains dozens of video and print examples of how advertisers market harmful substances such as alcohol and tobacco to various niche audiences,including Native Americans, Latinos, Asians, AfricanAmericans, GLBT and Women. Primer for introducing the subject of cultural marketing to high school and middle school students. Includes a guided Media Literacy Tutorial.

National Conference for Media Reform                                                     HS, Adult

DVD-Rom of the St. Louis Conference.

2005

Reversing Addiction                                                                                                        E, MS, HS

New Mexico Media Literacy Project CD-ROM

Interactive presentations on five key prevention issues. Easy to mix and match to design your own presentations. Includes over 200 media examples with printable talking points.

Something Stinks in Hollywood  DVD-ROM                                            MS,HS

New Mexico Media Literacy Project

Learn more about what researchers have called "the most powerful pro-tobacco influence on kids in the world today"–smoking in Hollywood movies. Tool to teach students about this important connection between media and public health. Includes over 50 scenes from Hollywood movies, and discussion Guides.

2005

Understanding Media

NMMLP's classic introduction to media literacy.

 

BOOKS:

The Age of Missing Information by Bill Mckibben

Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers by Alisssa Quart

Children, Adolescents and the Media  by Victor Strasburger Barbara Wilson- excellent

Deadly Persuasion by Jean Kilbourne – also excellent

The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century  McChesney, Moyers

The Problem of the Media: Communication Politics in the 21st Century Robert McChesney

Media Alert: 200 Activities to create Media Savvy Kids by Sue Lockwood Summers

No Logo by Naomi Klein

Screen Smarts: A Family Guide to Media Literacy Gloria DeGaetano & Kathleen Bander

Spongeheadz: U and Media by Lynn Ziegler

Stop Teaching our Kids to Kill by Lt. Col Grossman and Gloria DeGaetano

Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen  by David Walsh, Ph.d.                                          

Lending Policy

12-day period of loan.  $1 per week overdue fee.  Full replacement for loss and damages.

For extensions please contact Robin Rieske @ 802-257-2885.

Materials are available primarily to educators and youth-serving professionals of Windham County

for the purpose of education as per the users discretion. 

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Please submit with return of materials.

 

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