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VIDEOGRAPHY
- Tough
Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity: While
the social construction of femininity has been widely examined,
the dominant role of masculinity has until recently remained
largely invisible. Tough Guise is the first educational video
geared toward college and high school students to systematically
examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and
the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S.
at the dawn of the 21st century. In this innovative and wide-ranging
analysis, Jackson Katz argues that widespread violence in
American society, including the tragic school shootings in
Littleton, Colorado, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and elsewhere, needs
to be understood as part of an ongoing crisis in masculinity.
This exciting new media literacy tool-- utilizing racially
diverse subject matter and examples-- will enlighten and provoke
students (both males and females) to evaluate their own participation
in the culture of contemporary masculinity.
Tough Guise was named one of the Top Ten Young Adult Videos
for 2000 by the American Library Association. It has become
a staple in college communication, sociology, gender studies,
psychology, criminology and linguistics courses, as well as
numerous high school courses. It is regularly used by educators
in the battered women's and rape crisis movements, and counselors
in the batterer intervention field. It has been seen by over
3 million people.
- Wrestling
With Manhood: Boys, Bullying, and Battering (with Sut
Jhally): Wrestling with Manhood is the first educational program
to pay attention to the enormous popularity of professional
wrestling among male youth, addressing its relationship to
real-life violence and probing the social values that sustain
it as a powerful cultural force. Richly illustrating their
analysis with numerous examples, Sut Jhally and Jackson Katz
– the award-winning creators of the videos Dreamworlds
and Tough Guise, respectively – offer a new way to think
about the enduring problems of men’s violence against
women and bullying in our schools. Drawing the connection
between professional wrestling and the construction of contemporary
masculinity, they show how so-called “entertainment”
is related to homophobia, sexual assault and relationship
violence. They further argue that to not engage with wrestling
in a serious manner allows cynical promoters of violence and
sexism an uncontested role in the process by which boys become
“men.” Designed to engage the wrestling fan as well
as the cultural analyst, Wrestling with Manhood will provoke
spirited debate about some of our most serious social problems.
- Spin
the Bottle: Sex, Lies, and Alcohol (with Jean Kilbourne):
In its portrayal in popular culture, alcohol offers a release
from inhibitions and a path to happiness, wealth, maturity,
creativity, athletic success, independence, and sexual freedom.
In reality, the abuse of alcohol diminishes and destroys those
very qualities and is linked to 1,400 deaths, 500,000 injuries,
and 70,000 sexual assaults among students each year. Using
numerous examples from Hollywood movies, MTV Spring Break,
sitcoms, and advertising, as well as interviews with college
students, award-winning media critics Jean Kilbourne (Killing
Us Softly 3, Slim Hopes) and Jackson Katz (Tough Guise) discuss
the way that alcohol abuse has been normalized in the lives
of millions of young people. Spin the Bottle is the first
educational program to step beyond an analysis of “binge
drinking” to focus on techniques that alcohol marketers
use to link the product to the fragile gender identities of
young men and women. It also offers young people concrete
strategies to counter the ubiquitous presence of alcohol propaganda
and, in so doing, inspires them to take back control of their
own lives from the influence of cynical manipulators.
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