Movies

For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these...

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

Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the accuracy or inaccuracy of specific representations,...

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

This documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to...

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...

The line between sexual consent and sexual coercion is not always as clear as it seems -- and according to Harry Brod, this is exactly why we should...

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

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...

Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of studios and their owners, rather than...

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

It has been 30 years since Title IX legislation granted women equal playing time, but the male-dominated world of sports journalism has yet to catch...

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

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