Filmes

In the past three decades, obesity rates in the US have more than doubled for children and tripled for adolescents, and 70% of adults are now obese...

Stuart Hall offers an accessible and clarifying analysis of the social construction of race and racial difference. He explores how variations in...

The #MeToo movement has shined much-needed light on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse and created unprecedented demand for gender...

Sports media scholars look at the persistence of heterosexism and homophobia in perpetuating gender stereotypes. They argue for new media images...

Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics, and our culture, even though a growing body of research suggests it may be well past its...

Jean Kilbourne's pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning Killing us Softly...

Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, Sut Jhally asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this...

This documentary places the Bush Administration's original justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by...

In this important lecture delivered at the University of Massachusetts, Edward Said takes aim at one of the central tenets of recent foreign policy...

Wrestling with Manhood is the first educational program to pay attention to the enormous popularity of professional wrestling among male youth,...

bell hooks is one of America's most accessible public intellectuals. In this two-part video, extensively illustrated with many of the images under...

There's a bad mood rising against the corporate brands. No Logo is the warning on the label. In the last decade, No Logo has become a cultural...

Edward Said's book ORIENTALISM has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978. In this engaging (and...

Video and computer games represent a $6 billion a year industry. One out of every ten households in American owns a Sony Playstation. Children who...

Social and developmental psychologist and author Lynn Phillips explores the line between consent and coercion in this thought-provoking look at...

Dreamworlds 3 examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and encourages viewers to consider how these narratives...

Deepa Kumar, a leading scholar on Islamophobia, argues that U.S. media have turned Arabs and Muslims into the new face of terror, even though only a...

The documentary focuses on images of women in advertising, in particular on gender stereotypes, the effects of advertising on women's self-image and...

The hallmarks of popular music - artist independence and diversity of voices - are threatened by a contracting marketplace of record companies, radio...