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Know Media’s MEDIA LITERACY VIDEO LIBRARY – Updated May 2009
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: Product placement in 2000 37 min Beyond Good and Evil : Children, Media & Violent 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. 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 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 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
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
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 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 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: A
striking comparison of 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 The most
comprehensive review of Arab screen images ever published. Analyzing over 900
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
Made in Study Guide soon available. Extra clips of production and interviews. 2008 90 min Slim 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
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 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 2002 50 min Voices Project (DVD) MS, HS Ground-breaking and moving
original musical is based on the lives of 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 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 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 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
Video examples youth-focused media created by 2005
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
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 2005 Reversing Addiction E, MS, HS 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 Learn more about what researchers have called "the
most powerful pro-tobacco influence on kids in the world today"–smoking
in 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 Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival
Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen by David Walsh, Ph.d. Lending
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