With Thomas Keith ; interviewees: Byron Hurt, Jackson Katz, Jean Kilbourne, Kimberly Salter, Nancy Gruver, Tessa Jolls, J.W. Wiley, Alvin Poussaint. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008. Special feature: "Media literacy, education, and choice" bonus section (7 min.).
Contents:
Introduction -- Female empowerment? -- The doll wars -- Idealized beauty -- The pink-blue dichotomy -- Misogyny and double standards.
Summary:
"Despite the achievements of the women's movement over the past four decades, misogyny remains a persistent force in American culture. In this ... 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 heart of our popular culture. The film tracks the destructive dynamics of misogyny across a broad and disturbing range of media phenomena: including the hyper-sexualization of commercial products aimed at girls, the explosion of violence in video games aimed at boys, the near-hysterical sexist rants of hip-hop artists and talk radio shock jocks, and the harsh, patronizing caricatures of femininity and feminism that reverberate throughout the mainstream of American popular culture. Along the way, Generation M forces us to confront the dangerous real-life consequences of misogyny in all of its forms--making a compelling case that when we devalue more than half the population based on gender, we harm boys and men as well as women and girls"--Container.
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