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©2014.
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English
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The news is everywhere. We can't stop constantly checking it. But what is this doing to our minds? We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton, but this has a huge impact on our sense of what matters and of how we should lead our lives. Here, de Botton takes twenty-five archetypal news stories--including an airplane crash, a murder, a celebrity interview and a political scandal--and...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down. Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing to do anything to get the shot. It was a time when the Internet was still the Wild West, and when slut-shaming, fat-shaming, and revenge porn were all considered...
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Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In You Are What You Watch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and data expert Walt Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, how we see ourselves, and how nations gain power through entertainment. Virtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that entertainment can and does affect us in surprising and significant ways. But did you know that our most popular...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this illustrated lecture, Stuart Hall examines gender and racial stereotyping in the media. He focuses on the concept of "representation" to show how reality is never experienced directly, but is instead filtered through symbolic cultural categories. Ideal for classes on cultural studies, African American studies, media studies, communication, sociology, and anthropology, among others.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With refreshing candor, Spin the Bottle examines how cultural messages about alcohol affect the lives of young people. Media critics Jackson Katz and Jean Kilbourne decode the glamorized stories media tell about drinking, while college students speak with poignant honesty about their own experiences with alcohol and its alluring public image. Sure to spark important conversation about the complex relationship between alcohol use, media influence,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Robert McChesney, author of the award-winning book of the same title, examines the impact of media consolidation on journalism and democracy. He argues that far from delivering on the promise of more choice and greater diversity, consolidation has undermined competition, resulting in an increasingly homogenized media landscape and a news media system high on sensationalism and low on information.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Turning to issues of media policy, George Gerbner delivers a stinging indictment of the way the so called "information superhighway" is being constructed. By examining the logic of globalization he shows the ineffectual nature of our present responses - such as the V-Chip - to deal with the urgent crisis of the media. Showing the real uses to which the "information superhighway" will be put by its corporate masters, he urges the citizens of the world...
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Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"America's news media has moved farther away from the people than ever before. The fourth estate is supposed to be a conduit to the people and a check on power. Instead, we have a bunch of geographically isolated, introspection-free, cozy-with-power, egomaniacal journalists thirsty for elite approval. This is a major problem. And no one articulates these problems better than Steve Krakauer, one of America's sharpest media critics. In Uncovered, Krakauer...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representation from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows. This documentary breaks important new ground in exploring wasy in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect with class, offering a complex reading of television's often one-dimensional representations. Featuring...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Dreamworlds 3, the highly anticipated update of Dreamworlds 2 (1995), examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and by extension boys and men, providing a meticulous analysis of how these narratives reflect and shape individual and cultural attitudes toward femininity, masculinity, sexuality, and race. Systematically dismantling music video's most persistent and disturbing stock representations, and setting them against...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This compelling new documentary focuses on the sexual dilemmas and difficult life choices young girls face as they come of age in contemporary American culture. Challenging long-held myths about girlhood, the film draws on the insights of girls themselves to explore and shed light on their actual lived experience as they navigate our increasingly hyper-sexualized society. The voices of a diverse range of girls are supplemented with accessible analysis...
14) Brand new you
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What do popular television makeover programs like What Not to Wear, The Biggest Loser, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and The Swan tell us about how to look and feel? What do they tell us about what a good life looks like in contemporary America? This new film based on Katherine Sender's book The Makeover explores these questions against the backdrop of American ideals of self-invention and upward mobility. Asking what it means to be an authentic...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From its origins in academic discourse in the 1970s to our collective imagination today, the concept of "rape culture" has resonated in a variety of spheres, including television, gaming, comic book culture, and college campuses. Beyond Blurred Lines traces ways that sexual violence is collectively processed, mediated, negotiated, and contested by exploring public reactions to high-profile incidents and rape narratives in popular culture. The concept...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News and the New York Times best-selling author of Ship of Fools, a collection of nostalgic writings that underscore America's long slide from innocence to orthodoxy.
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