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  1. Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse (2017)

    Director
    Sut Jhally
    Producer
    Jeremy Earp
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), $350.00

    Media scholar Sut Jhally takes the viewer through the history of advertising, from the emergence of the industry in the early 20th century to the full-scale commercialization of culture in the digital age....

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  2. Howard Zinn’s Emma (2016)

    Director
    Bruce Grund
    Producer
    Bruce Grund
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 104 minutes), $350.00

    Filmed performance of Howard Zinn’s stage play ‘Emma’, a dramatisation of the life of Emma Goldman, the anarchist, feminist, and free-spirited thinker who was exiled from the United States because of...

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  3. TV Family: Behind the Scenes of the First Reality Television Program (2015)

    Director
    Ethan Thompson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 56 minutes), $275

    In 1960, NBC transmitted what is widely considered to be the first "reality television" show in American broadcast history. Hosted by Jane Wyatt, and billing itself as a "new kind of visual reporting," it...

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  4. Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream (2015)

    Director
    Katherine Sender
    Subject
    Broadcasting; Media studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 53 minutes), $275

    What do popular television makeover programmes tell us about about what a good life looks like in contemporary America? Based on Katherine Sender’s book The Makeover the film examines this question against...

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  5. Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

    Subject
    Economics; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 41 minutes), $350.00

    Documentary. What distinguishing feature do the world’s healthiest and happiest societies have in common? According to acclaimed author Richard Wilkinson, the reason is that they have far less income...

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  6. Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Marketing and the Creation of a Health Crisis (2013)

    Director
    Kate Geis
    Producer
    Rebecca Rideout; Kate Geis
    Subject
    Health Education; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $275.00

    Over the past three decades, obesity rates in the USA have more than doubled for children and tripled for adolescents and a startling 70% of adults are now obese or overweight. The result has been a widening...

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  7. War Around Us, The (2013)

    Director
    Abdallah Omeish
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 67 minutes), $250.00

    THE WAR AROUND US tells the story of the only two international journalists on the ground in Gaza during Israel’s bombardment and invasion of the troubled Palestinian territory over a three-week period in...

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  8. Google and the World Brain: The Audacious Attempt to Control Human Knowledge (2013)

    Director
    Ben Lewis
    Producer
    Bettina Walter
    Subject
    Information technology; Law; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 93 minutes), $350.00 (College and University)

    In 1937, the science fiction writer H. G. Wells imagined a "World Brain" containing all of the world’s knowledge, accessible to all people, that would be "so compact in its material form and so gigantic in...

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  9. Do the Math (2013)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), $350.00

    Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben delivers a clear message: to avoid climate catastrophe, we have to limit carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere to 350 parts per million or below, but we...

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  10. Flirting with Danger (2012)

    Director
    Sut Jhally
    Subject
    Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (52 minutes), $250.00

    Social and developmental psychologist and author Lynn Phillips explores the line between consent and coercion in this thought-provoking look at popular culture and the ways real girls and women navigate...

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