Videos on Women's and Gender Studies

Beautiful daughters 2005

Josh Aronson, Ariel Orr Jordan, Eve Ensler , and Aronson Film Associates

"Beautiful Daughters is a film about the craetion of the first all transgender production of Eve Ensler's 'The Vagina Monologues' and some of the extraordinary women who made it happen. This production was a first-ever gathering of the transsexual community's best and brightest from all over America. All of these women were born as boys. Some were still living in stealth and chose this performance to come out."--director's website. 1 videodisc (61 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3143

 

The codes of gender identity + performance in pop culture c2009

Sut Jhally and Media Education Foundation

"Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape in this provocative new film about gender as a ritualized commercial performance.  Uncovering a remarkable pattern of gender-specific poses, Jhally explores Goffman's central claim that the way the body is displayed in advertising communicates normative ideas about masculinity and femininity.  The film looks beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and beyond analyses of gender that focus on biological difference or issues of surface objectification and beauty, taking us into the two-tiered terrain of identity and power relations"--Container. 1 videodisc (73 min.)

MEDIA 10-1580

 

Cruel and unusual transgender women in prison c2006

A documentary about transgender women convicted and incarcerated in men's prisons in the United States. Five transgender women describe their experiences, including rape, violence, solitary confinement, and denial of medical care. 1 videodisc (63 min.)

MEDIA 10-4566

 

Diagnosing difference c2009 +

A documentary film featuring thirteen transgender and genderqueer scholars, artists, and activists discussing the impact and implications of the Gender Identity Disorder diagnosis on their lives and communities. 1 videodisc (64 min.)

MEDIA 10-3991

 

Dreamworlds 3 desire, sex & power in music video c2007

Sut Jhally and Media Education Foundation

A look at how the narratives of music videos shape individual & cultural attitudes toward femininity, masculinity, sexuality and race. 1 videodisc (54 min.)

MEDIA 10-797

 

Generation M misogyny in media & culture c2008

Thomas Keith, Vox Populi Productions, and Media Education Foundation

Thomas Keith, Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, looks at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the heart of popular culture. The film tracks the dynamics of misogyny across a broad 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 language of hip-hop artists and talk radio shock jocks, and caricatures of femininity and feminism found in the American popular culture mainstream. The case is made that the devaluation of women based on gender can harm boys and men as well as women and girls. (Container). 1 videodisc (60 min.)

MEDIA 10-1425

 

Girl inside 2007?

Follows Madison B. during her three-year transition from male to female. Focuses especially on Madison's relationship with her grandmother, with whom she discusses issues of gender, femininity and sexuality. 1 videodisc (70 min.)

MEDIA 10-5457

 

Guardians of the flutes c1996

Paul Reddish, Gilbert H Herdt, British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service, and Filmakers Library, inc

Discusses the Sambia people, a war-like tribe in the mountains of New guinea. 1 videodisc (55 min.)

MEDIA 10-1595

 

Hermaphrodites speak 1997

This film covers a meeting of intersexed people at the first retreat of the Intersex Society of North America. Seven participants, two assigned as men and four as women, and one individual who identifies as neither male or female but as a third gender, tell their stories of growing up intersexed and their feelings of social isolation. They express resentment towards the medical establishment and the current standard medical treatment for hermaphroditic children. 1 videodisc (34 min.)

MEDIA 10-4892

 

Hip-hop beyond beats and rhymes c2006

Byron Hurt, God Bless the Child Productions, Independent Television Service, National Black Programming Consortium, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Media Education Foundation

Examines the representation of manhood in hip-hop culture and explores the related issues of race, gender violence and corporate explotation of hip-hop. 1 videodisc (61 min.)

MEDIA 10-700

 

I am a man Black masculinity in America c2006

Byron Hurt, Andrew P Jones, National Black Programming Consortium, Media Education Foundation, Connecticut Public Television, and God Bless the Child Productions

A documentary that explores what it means to be a black man in America.  It confronts issues of race, and racism, through the lens of gender, probing deep within the traditional American ideals of manhood in order to draw out the complex and often ambivalent nature of black male identity. 1 videodisc (60 min.)

MEDIA 10-699

 

I'm just Anneke c2010

When 12-year-old tomboy Anneke has an identity crisis at the onset of puberty, her doctors put her on Lupron, a hormone blocker that temporarily delays the hormones of adolescence to give her more time to make a decision on who she wants to be. 1 videodisc (11 min.)

MEDIA 10-4911

 

It gets messy in here 2011

Explores the intersections of race, gender and sexuality via the experiences of transgender men and women of color. 1 videodisc (32 min.)

MEDIA 10-4891

 

A married couple 2010

A documentary focusing on the relationship between Billy and Antoinette Edwards, an eccentric married couple, also capturing a time in which long-existing gender roles were beginning to dissolve. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-5573

 

Martina's playhouse 2007, 1986

"In Martina's Playhouse, everything is up for grabs. The little girl of the title oscillates from narrator to reader to performer and from the role of baby to that of mother. While the roles she adopts may be learned, they are not set, and she moves easily between them. Similarly, in filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh's playhouse of encounters with friends, objects aren't merely objects but shift between layers of meaning. Men are conspicuously absent, a lack reversing of the Lacanian/Freudian constructions of women as Ahwesh plays with other possibilities." --Kathy Geritz, program notes (Berkeley: Pacific Film Archive, 1990). 1 videocassette (20 min.) :

MEDIA 10-7921

 

Metamorphosis man into woman 2012?

"Three years in the making, this film chronicles one person's transformation from man to woman. As many as 60,000 Americans suffer from 'gender dysphoria' - they don't identify with their own body, but with that of the opposite sex. Over 10,000 have gone on to have 'sex-reassignment' surgery. These people are called transexuals. Gary, 36 when we began filming, has always believed that he is a woman, 'trapped' in a man's body. Before he can be accepted for sex-change surgery, Gary must demonstrate that he can successfully live and work as a women, 24 hous a day, for at least one year. It is during this transition period that the real gender shift occurs, a time of unraveling layers of masculine behavior to uncover 'Gabi,' the woman he believes himself to be. By the time Gabi undergoes surgery the final surgery, the operation will be just one more in her metamorphosis from man into woman.". 1 videodisc (58 min.)

MEDIA 10-3837

 

No dumb questions 2009

Melissa Regan, Epiphany Productions (Firm), and New Day Films

The program follows three sisters, ages 6, 9, and 11, as they struggle to understand why and how Uncle Bill is becoming Aunt Barbara. 1 videodisc (24 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3630

 

Pitra, Putra Aur Dharamyuddha Father, son and holy war c1994

Anand Patwardhan, Narinder Singh, Naseeruddin Shah, Apurwa Yagnik, Atul Tiwari, and Icarus Films

In the politically polarized world, universal ideals are rare. In India, as in many places, at times the vacuum is filled by religious zealotry. But why? This documentary examines Indian patriarchy, machismo, and the attitudes they generate toward women and minorities in India, as well as the exploitation of ancient history, popular culture, prejudice, and religion by the unscrupulous for political gain. Violence--whether against women or members of other regions and religions--is embraced by men as a vital component of being "a real man." If the origin of violence against "the other" lays in male insecurity, itself a product of this construction of "manhood," where do the men of India go from there?  Forward, or back? 2 videodiscs (120 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3652

 

Playing unfair the media image of the female athlete 2002

Kenyon King, Loretta Alper, Jessica Nachem , Mary Jo Kane, Pat Griffin, and Michael A Messner

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 up with the law. Coverage of women's sport lags far behind men's, and focuses on female athletes femininity and sexuality over their achievements on the court and field. 1 videodisc (30 min.)

MEDIA 10-195

 

The secret lives of boys 2003

Alison Craiglow Hockenberry, Hugh Downs, Barbara Walters, John Stossel, ABC News, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)

"Is the recent surge in male youth violence one result of the societally imposed demand for men to seem 'strong and silent'? In this ABC News 20/20 program, correspondent John Stossel; Dr. William Pollack, of the Harvard Medical School and author of Real Boys; and researchers from Emory University and the University of Connecticut explore why boys tend to repress their feelings. Using a real counseling session, experts demonstrate how to help boys express their feelings before they begin to act them out at school and at home in antisocial behavior--or even in a shooting spree or suicide."--Container. 1 videodisc (24 min.)

MEDIA 10-255

 

Sexual stereotypes in the media c2008

Jerry Baber, Rhonda Fabian, Suzanne Weintraub, Oscar H Gandy, Carolyn L Kitch, Bob Garfield, Fabian-Baber, Inc, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

"This program illustrates some of the commercial, cultural, psychological, and sociological forces that have shaped sexual stereotypes in the media, such as demographic segmentation and the selling of gender, the myths of alluring femininity and rugged masculinity, Jungian personality archetypes, consensus reality, stereotype threat, the hegemonic forces of agenda-setting and mainstreaming, body image dysfunctions, and the theory of the male gaze." --Container. 1 videodisc (38 min)

MEDIA 10-1863

 

Spin the bottle sex, lies and alcohol c2004

Ronit Ridberg, Jackson Katz, Jean Kilbourne, and Media Education Foundation

"By exploring the college party scene, Spin the Bottle shows the difficulties students have in navigating a cultural environment saturated with messages about gender and alcohol"--Container. 1 videodisc (92 min.)

MEDIA 10-312

 

Tough guise 2 violence, manhood & American culture In this highly anticipated update of the influential and widely acclaimed Tough Guise, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist Jackson Katz argues that the ongoing epidemic of men's violence in America is rooted in our inability as a society to move beyond outmoded ideals of manhood. In a sweeping analysis that cuts across racial, ethnic, and class lines, Katz examines mass shootings, day-to-day gun violence, violence against women, bullying, gay-bashing, and American militarism against the backdrop of a culture that has normalized violent and regressive forms of masculinity in the face of challenges to traditional male power and authority. Along the way, the film provides a stunning look at the violent, sexist, and homophobic messages boys and young men routinely receive from virtually every corner of the culture, from television, movies, video games, and advertising to pornography, the sports culture, and US political culture. Tough Guise 2 stands to empower a new generation of young men - and women - to challenge the myth that being a real man means putting up a false front and engaging in violent and self-destructive behavior. 1 videodisc (78 min.)

MEDIA 10-4685

 

Tough guise violence, media, and the crisis in masculinity c2002

Sut Jhally, Susan Ericsson, Sanjay Talreja , Jackson Katz, Jeremy Earp, and Media Education Foundation

"Systematically examine[s] the relationship between images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the United States at the dawn of the 21st century ... Argues that the widespread violence in American society needs to be understood as part of an ongoing crisis in masculinity"--Container. 1 videodisc (84 min.)

MEDIA       DANA 10-2178            1710 2-3959

 

Venus boyz 2004?

Venus Boyz takes the viewers on an extraordinary journey into the universe of female masculinity. Filmed in New York City and London, this eye-opening documentary uses the performances of drag kings - as a starting point into the topic of transgendering. 1 videodisc (102 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3827

 

Wrestling with manhood boys, bullying and battering 2002

Sut Jhally, Jackson Katz, and Vince McMahon

Drawing the connection between professional wrestling and the construction of contemporary masculinity, Sut Jhally and Jackson Katz 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.". 1 videodisc (60 min.)

MEDIA 10-202

 

Aegean sponge divers 1974

Bengt Börjeson and H. Russell Bernard

Shows the way of life of Greek sponge fishermen from Kalymnos Island in the Dodecanese group. Shows how a rigid code of masculinity forces them into ignoring basic safety procedures in their hazardous work. 1 videocassette (ca. 27 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2451

 

Between men 1979

Will Roberts

Presents a study of masculinity and militarism using archival footage and interviews with veterans from World War I to the Vietnamese conflict. Deals with the lives of men who become soldiers and the consequences to their lives, relationships, and emotions. 1 videocassette (57 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2475

 

Body image for boys c2002

Laura Ling, Derrick Shore, and Cambridge Educational (Firm)

This program explores some of the issues facing young men today as they struggle to define themselves amidst the flood of media-generated images of male physical perfection. Experts include Divya Kakaiya, Leigh Cohn, and UCLA Healthcare sports medicine physician Gary Green. 1 videocassette (18 min.)

MEDIA 2-6771

 

Boys will be men 2001

Tom Weidlinger and Stephen Anthony Jones

Explores the terrors and triumphs of growing up male in America and suggests ways to help guide the journey to adulthood. 1 videocassette (57 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5719

 

Brains on toast the inexact science of gender : a videotape 1992

Joyan Saunders and Liss Platt

"This experimental narrative examines how science and the medical establishment have played a determinate role in establishing gender distinctions.  Bedroom, kitchen and zoo locales create the backdrop for a humorous and irreverant expose of how science dictates what is male and female."--Container. 1 videocassette (24 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3904

 

The codes of gender identity + performance in pop culture c2009

Sut Jhally and Media Education Foundation

"Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape in this provocative new film about gender as a ritualized commercial performance.  Uncovering a remarkable pattern of gender-specific poses, Jhally explores Goffman's central claim that the way the body is displayed in advertising communicates normative ideas about masculinity and femininity.  The film looks beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and beyond analyses of gender that focus on biological difference or issues of surface objectification and beauty, taking us into the two-tiered terrain of identity and power relations"--Container. 1 videodisc (73 min.) :

MEDIA 10-1580

 

Dear Lisa 1990

J Clements

Thirteen women describe incidents from their lives revealing their socialization as women and the roles society expects women to play. This film is a comprehensive and multicultural look at women's hopes and dreams and the realities of being female in the 1990's. 1 videocassette (46 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3400

 

Dreamworlds 3 desire, sex & power in music video c2007

Sut Jhally and Media Education Foundation

A look at how the narratives of music videos shape individual & cultural attitudes toward femininity, masculinity, sexuality and race. 1 videodisc (54 min.)

MEDIA 10-797

 

Exploring society Gender [videorecording]
            2002

Ken Harrison, Sean Whitley, and Lynn Mathis

Discusses what it means to be male or female and how societies definition of gender norm is determined by culture.  1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6102

 

Game over gender, race & violence in video games 2000

Nina B Huntemann, Erica Scharrer, Andrea Haviston, Michael Morgan, Eugene F Provenzo, and David Grossman

This educational documentary addresses the fastest growing segment of the media, video games, through engaging questions of gender, race and violence. What are the messages of video games? Why are the majority of game players male? Are video games desensitizing children to violence? How is race represented? Are interactive video games different from television? What images of masculinity and power are offered? What images of women exist in the video game world? 1 videocassette (41 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5197

 

Generation M misogyny in media & culture c2008

Thomas Keith, Vox Populi Productions, and Media Education Foundation

Thomas Keith, Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, looks at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the heart of popular culture. The film tracks the dynamics of misogyny across a broad 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 language of hip-hop artists and talk radio shock jocks, and caricatures of femininity and feminism found in the American popular culture mainstream. The case is made that the devaluation of women based on gender can harm boys and men as well as women and girls. (Container). 1 videodisc (60 min.) :

MEDIA 10-1425

 

Guardians of the flutes c1996

Paul Reddish, Gilbert H Herdt, British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service, and Filmakers Library, inc

Discusses the Sambia people, a war-like tribe in the mountains of New guinea. 1 videodisc (55 min.) :

MEDIA 10-1595

 

Hip-hop beyond beats and rhymes c2006

Byron Hurt, God Bless the Child Productions, Independent Television Service, National Black Programming Consortium, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Media Education Foundation

Examines the representation of manhood in hip-hop culture and explores the related issues of race, gender violence and corporate explotation of hip-hop. 1 videodisc (61 min.)

MEDIA 10-700

 

Hollywood and the American image the golden years 1988

Tony Thomas

Writer-narrator Tony Thomas takes us back to the Golden Age of the American film, the year from the early thirties to the late forties when the movies were the principle means of entertainment.  They were the years in which Hollywood dwelt mostly upon the virtues of American character, when Gary Cooper and James Stewart personified the American male and Barbara Stanwyck and Carole Lombard were the ideals of American womanhood.  It was potent and persuasive and important.  This is how we saw ourselves--thanks to Hollywood and the American image. 1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1499

 

I am a man Black masculinity in America c2006

Byron Hurt, Andrew P Jones, National Black Programming Consortium, Media Education Foundation, Connecticut Public Television, and God Bless the Child Productions

A documentary that explores what it means to be a black man in America.  It confronts issues of race, and racism, through the lens of gender, probing deep within the traditional American ideals of manhood in order to draw out the complex and often ambivalent nature of black male identity. 1 videodisc (60 min.)

MEDIA 10-699

 

Man oh man growing up male in America 1987, 1988

J Clements, Jeff Ebbage, and Scott Musgrone

Using interviews with men, family films, and a pastiche of sounds and images, documents what it is like to grow up as a male in America today. Looks at what shapes a boy into a man and the roles and stereotypes men have to deal with in today's society. 1 videocassette (18 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3416

 

Masai manhood 1991

Chris Curling and Melissa Llewelyn-Davies

An ethnographic view of Masai culture and society, focusing on the preparation of young Masai boys for manhood and leadership in their society. Follows the seven years of transition in which the boys serve as warriors and learn about survival and the outside world, as dictated by their elders. 1 videocassette (53 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3892

 

Playing unfair the media image of the female athlete 2002

Kenyon King, Loretta Alper, Jessica Nachem , Mary Jo Kane, Pat Griffin, and Michael A Messner

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 up with the law. Coverage of women's sport lags far behind men's, and focuses on female athletes femininity and sexuality over their achievements on the court and field. 1 videodisc (30 min.) :

MEDIA 10-195

 

Rate it X 1985

Paula de Koenigsberg, Lucy Winer, Claudette Charbonneau, and Lynn Campbell

An ironic portrait of the American man and his stubborn sexual chauvinism.  Amazing interviews with a wide variety of men reveal the deep rooted sense of machismo and the sexual double standards and racism at work in our culture today. 1 videocassette (55 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3946

 

The right to femininity fighting female circumcision in Africa today 2006

Monika Pribyl, Marion Mayer-Hohdahl, Österreichischer Rundfunk, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

The custom of female circumcision faces growing opposition in Africa. This program presents multiple perspectives on the issue, interviewing health care personnel, professional circumcisers, women who have undergone the ritual, and men who are against it. Examining medical and emotional problems that follow genital mutiliation, the video also features signs of positive change, including a Nigerian drama troupe that stages anti-circumcision productions and groups like UNICEF, CARE Austria, and the Girls' Power Initiative that campaign in areas where the ritual's effects are most profound. 1 videodisc (46 min.)

DANA 236

 

The secret lives of boys 2003

Alison Craiglow Hockenberry, Hugh Downs, Barbara Walters, John Stossel, ABC News, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)

"Is the recent surge in male youth violence one result of the societally imposed demand for men to seem 'strong and silent'? In this ABC News 20/20 program, correspondent John Stossel; Dr. William Pollack, of the Harvard Medical School and author of Real Boys; and researchers from Emory University and the University of Connecticut explore why boys tend to repress their feelings. Using a real counseling session, experts demonstrate how to help boys express their feelings before they begin to act them out at school and at home in antisocial behavior--or even in a shooting spree or suicide."--Container. 1 videodisc (24 min.)

MEDIA 10-255

 

Sexual stereotypes in the media c2008

Jerry Baber, Rhonda Fabian, Suzanne Weintraub, Oscar H Gandy, Carolyn L Kitch, Bob Garfield, Fabian-Baber, Inc, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

"This program illustrates some of the commercial, cultural, psychological, and sociological forces that have shaped sexual stereotypes in the media, such as demographic segmentation and the selling of gender, the myths of alluring femininity and rugged masculinity, Jungian personality archetypes, consensus reality, stereotype threat, the hegemonic forces of agenda-setting and mainstreaming, body image dysfunctions, and the theory of the male gaze." --Container. 1 videodisc (38 min) :

MEDIA 10-1863

 

Sexuality in Mesoamerica machismo and marianismo : a video documentary c1996

Alfonso Moises, Martha Moises, University of Arizona, Media Arts, and Cinema Guild

A study of the concept of sexuality in Mexico and Central America. Focus is on the cultural archetypes of machismo and marianismo, orientations which have defined social conduct and sexual orientation throughout Latin America. 1 videocassette (33 min.)

MEDIA 2-7624

 

Spin the bottle sex, lies and alcohol c2004

Ronit Ridberg, Jackson Katz, Jean Kilbourne, and Media Education Foundation

"By exploring the college party scene, Spin the Bottle shows the difficulties students have in navigating a cultural environment saturated with messages about gender and alcohol"--Container. 1 videodisc (92 min.)

MEDIA 10-312

 

Stale roles and tight buns images of men in advertising 1988

John Lapham, Walter Locke, Michael Weisskoff, and Michael Markovits

Critiques the image of the male figure as found in advertising. Uses negative stereotypes of men to argue for a well rounded view of issues involving male socialization. 1 videocassette (29 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-1794 2-5962

 

Through Chinese women's eyes 1997

Mayfair Mei-hui Yang

Presents the transformations in the lives of Chinese women over the 20th century. Documents the attempts to erase gender differences under Mao, today's changing ideas of femininity, and the crystalization of Chinese feminism at the UN Women's conference in Beijing. 1 videocassette (53 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3397

 

Tough guise violence, media, and the crisis in masculinity 1999

Jackson Katz, Sut Jhally, Jeremy Earp, Susan Ericsson, and Sanjay Talreja

Examines the relationship between the images in popular culture and masculine identities in the late 20th century United States. 1 videocassette (57 min.) :

DANA, MEDIA 1710 2-3959

 

Wrestling with manhood boys, bullying and battering 2002

Sut Jhally, Jackson Katz, and Vince McMahon

Drawing the connection between professional wrestling and the construction of contemporary masculinity, Sut Jhally and Jackson Katz 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.". 1 videodisc (60 min.) :

MEDIA 10-202