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Tag: media

  • S.F.W.

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    An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he’s taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.

  • Broadchurch

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    The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

  • Spice World

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    World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.

  • The Celluloid Closet

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    What “That’s Entertainment” did for movie musicals, “The Celluloid Closet” does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Lily Tomlin narrates as Oscar-winning moviemaker Rob Epstein (“The Times of Harvey Milk” and “Common Threads:…

  • 11’09”01—September 11

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    Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

  • Cannibalism: A New Taste in Style

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    In the near future ceilings have been replaced by omnipresent TV’s. In the mass media Cannibalism is being hyped as the latest trend in people’s day to day lives. Ma, Pa and Wilberforce are your typical North American family. They are obese, over consuming and have a big screen TV on their kitchen ceiling. Life…

  • Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism

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    This film examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, have been running a “race to the bottom” in television news, and provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangerous impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person. Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR) Bob…

  • Breaking News

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    After a disastrous failure to stop a robber gang, the police attempt to redeem themselves through a series of publicity stunts and shootouts.

  • Choose Connor

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    Idealistic 15-year-old Owen gets the chance of a lifetime to be the youth spokesman for U.S. Senate Candidate Lawrence Connor, only to be exploited in a fierce campaign of TV and radio ads, posters, interviews, and speaking engagements in the cut throat media-image-is-all world of American politics.

  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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    Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the ‘fastest gun in the West’. An eager recruit into James’ notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother sense an opportunity to kill James, their murderous action elevates their target to near mythical status.

  • PoliWood

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    An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.

  • Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape

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    A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called “video nasties” caused in Britain during the 1980s.

  • Miss Representation

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    The film MISS REPRESENTATION exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls’ value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality. Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media’s limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman. It’s time…

  • The New Watchdogs

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    In 1932, the writer Paul Nizan published “The New Watchdogs” to denounce the philosophers and writers of his time who, sheltering behind intellectual neutrality, imposed themselves as true watchdogs of the established order. Today the watchdogs are journalists, editors, and media experts who’ve openly become market evangelists and guardians of the social order. In a…

  • The Dead Pool

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    Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of actors and musicians. By the time Harry learns that the murders are a part of a sick game to predict the deaths of celebrities before they happen, it may be too late…

  • Dans les médias

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    Joined by contributors, and with a different guest each week, Marie-Louise Arsenault hosts this magazine that highlights the week’s top stories, casting a critical eye on the national and international media and the images that surround us in journalism, advertising and social networks.