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Publisher
Nation Books
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English
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Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: one, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, able to cope with complexity and to separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this "other society," comforting, reassuring images, fantasies, slogans and a celebration of violence push reality, complexity and nuance to the margins....
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Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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Looks systematically at the relationship between the images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the end of the 20th century. Jackson Katz argues that there is a crisis in masculinity and that some of the guises offered to men as a solution (e.g., rugged individualism, violence) come loaded with attendant dangers to women, as well as other men.
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A look at how the narratives of music videos shape individual & cultural attitudes toward femininity, masculinity, sexuality and race. "Systematically dismantling music video's most persistent and disturbing stock representations, and setting them against cases of real-world violence, sexism and discrimination, the film inspires viewers to critically examine how the distorted images of the Dreamworld connect with the lives of real girls and women,...
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English
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The seven women of the Sisterhood have risked everything in the name of justice, including their own freedom. Their most recent mission promised to reward them with the ultimate prize, a presidential pardon and a chance to leave their enforced exile. But as they've learned to their cost, life doesn't always turn out as planned...
Author
Series
Natural hazard research working paper volume 41
Publisher
[Institute of Behavioral Science, Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Institute, University of Colorado]
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In this highly anticipated update of the influential and widely acclaimed Tough Guise, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist Jackson Katz argues that the ongoing epidemic of men's violence in America is rooted in our inability as a society to move beyond outmoded ideals of manhood. In a sweeping analysis that cuts across racial, ethnic, and class lines, Katz examines mass shootings, day-to-day gun violence, violence against women,...
Series
Natural hazard research working paper volume 56
Publisher
University of Colorado, Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Author
Series
Natural hazard research working paper volume 67
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Polity Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply. - Yet the implications of social theory for understanding media and of media for rethinking social theory have been neglected; never before has it been more important...
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Publisher
Western Water Assessment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A significant body of academic research indicates that climate change is having a profound effect on the hydrology of the Colorado River Basin and those water systems dependent upon the river. In this study, we trace how the subject of climate change is featured in media coverage of Colorado River Basin water issues, acknowledging the salient role of the media in shaping public understanding and sentiment.
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
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"Despite the achievements of the women's movement over the past four decades, misogyny remains a persistent force in American culture. In this important new documentary, Thomas Keith, Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, looks specifically at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and hateful attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the very...
Author
Series
Natural hazard research working paper volume 63
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
17) Media influences on response to a natural hazard: the Mississippi River salt water intrusion of 1988
Series
Quick response research report volume 41
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Multi-billion dollar industries saturate our lives with images of unattainable beauty, exporting body hatred from New York to Beirut to Tokyo. Their target? Women, and increasingly men and children. The Illusionists turns the mirror on media, exposing the absurd, sometimes humorous, and shocking images that seek to enslave us
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 12
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society,...