Videos on Global Conditions

Consuming kids the commercialization of childhood c2008

Adriana Barbaro, Jeremy Earp, Jason T Young, Alex Peterson, and Media Education Foundation

"Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids."--Container. 1 videodisc (72 min.)

MEDIA 10-1552

 

eCeskay sen The Czech dream c2007

Vit Klusaak, Filip Remunda, Morgan Spurlock, Hypermarket Film (Prague, Czech Republic), and Arts Alliance America (Firm)

Two Czech film students explore the manipulative powers of consumerism on post-communist Czechoslovakia by creating a marketing campaign for a super store that doesn't exist. (container). 1 videodisc (88 min.)

MEDIA 10-1846

 

Is Wal-Mart good for America? 2004

Hedrick Smith, Rick Young, WGBH Educational Foundation, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), and PBS Video

Examines Wal-Mart's importation of Chinese goods into the United States. Discusses that while some economists credit Wal-Mart's focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living in the U.S. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)

MEDIA 10-1416

 

It's a mall world 2001, c2006

Stan Feingold, David McIvride, Jim Cissell , Eyes Project Development Corp, Finale Editworks (Firm), Sound Kitchen (Firm), Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

An ideal discussion-launcher for sociology courses, this program examines cultural and psychological aspects of what is now an archetypal suburban experience: shopping at the mall. 1 videodisc (47 min.)

MEDIA 10-860

 

Knock off die rache am logo 2004

Katharina Weingartner, Anette Baldauf, Knock Off Productions, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Arte (Firm), and First Run/Icarus Films

"A reflection on branding and globalization, framed by a journey up the world's longest shopping strip, Broadway in New York City, a veritable meridian of counterfeit selling... Documents an underground economy of people who resist the globalized culture of brands, by using the science of branding against itself" . 1 videodisc (44 min.)

MEDIA 10-1828

 

Luciano Benetton image maker c2006

Karl Olov Larsson, Christine Ockrent, Moderntv (Firm), Viasat Broadcasting Group, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)

Starting with a bicycle, his sisters knitting, and additional help from his two brothers, Luciano Benetton built one of the worlds most successful clothing companies. In this interview, the dominant personality behind the Benetton brand recounts his early years, his activities on the political and social landscape, and the innovative ways in which his company has communicated its image. 1 videodisc (42 min.)

MEDIA 10-1170

 

Malls r us 2009

Helene Klodawsky, Ina Fichman, Luc Martin-Gousset, Instinct Films, Point du Jour (Firm), and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Documentary that examines the social significance of shopping malls. 1 videodisc (78 min.)

MEDIA 10-1968

 

Media interrupted the dissection of media in American culture : Media's influence on what we buy 2001

Amy Weber, Gene Pulice, and Gayle Friedman

Philosophers, communication professors and advertising executives discuss various aspects of the media's influence on consumer behavior. 1 videodisc (20 min.)

MEDIA 10-130

 

Megamall a story of money, power, politics, and the American landscape 2010

Vera Aronow, Sarah Mondale, Roger Grange, Tom Phillips, James Howard Kunstler, Roberta Brandes Gratz, Donovan D Rypkema, Turnstone Productions, Stone Lantern Films, and Bullfrog Films

"Documents the origins of the massive Palisades Center mall and its impact on suburban Rockland County, New York, 18 miles north of Manhattan. The film kicks off when the biggest mall developer in the Northeast comes to the smallest county in New York to build its biggest mall yet on a toxic dump, one mile from the filmmakers' homes. That move sparks a citizen uprising which lasts almost 20 years"--Container. 1 videodisc (81 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2375

 

The merchants of cool 2003

Barak Goodman and Rachel Dretzin Goodman

Explores the culture in which today's American teenager is growing up and how they've come to view themselves and their parents. 1 videodisc (60 min.)

MEDIA. DANA 10-207  1454

 

No logo brands, globalization, resistance c2003

Naomi Klein, Sut Jhally, Loretta Alper, Kelly Garner, Naomi Klein, and Media Education Foundation

Using hundreds of media examples, No Logo shows how the commercial takeover of public space, destruction of consumer choice, and replacement of real jobs with temporary work (the dynamics of corporate globalization) impact everyone, everywhere. It also draws attention to the resistance arising globally to challenge the hegemony of brands. 1 DVD (42 min. +  min. additional footage)

  MEDIA 10-211

 

The overspent American why we want what we don't need c2003

Kelly Garner, Juliet Schor, and Media Education Foundation

"In this powerful new video, Juliet Schor scrutinizes what she calls 'the new consumerism'-- a national phenomenon of upscale spending that is shaped and reinforced by a commercially-driven media system. She argues that "keeping up with teh Joneses" is no longer enough for middle and upper-middle class Americans, many of whom become burdened with debilitating debt as they seek to emulate materialsitic TV lifestyles"--Container. 1 videodisc (32 min.)

MEDIA 10-275

 

Secret history of the credit card c2004

David Rummel, Lowell Bergman, New York Times Company, WGBH Educational Foundation , and PBS Video

This documentary investigates how the credit card industry became so pervasive, lucrative, and politically powerful. Explores the techniques used by the industry to earn large profits and get consumers to take on more debt. 1 videodisc (57 min.)

MEDIA 10-444

 

Shop 'til you drop the crisis of consumerism c2010

Gene Brockhoff, Alex Peterson, Peter C Whybrow, Juliet Schor, Cecile Andrews, Duane Elgin, Chris Jordan, James B Twitchell, Julian Darley, Spacetime Continuum, Well Crafted Films, and Media Education Foundation

"Are we too materialistic? Are we willfully trashing the planet in our pursuit of things? And what's the source of all this frenetic consumer energy and desire anyway? In a fast-paced tour of the ecological and psychological terrain of American consumer culture, Shop 'Til You Drop challenges us to confront these questions head-on. Taking aim at the high-stress, high-octane pace of fast-lane materialism, the film moves beneath the seductive surfaces of the commercial world to show how the flip side of accumulation is depletion -- the slow, steady erosion of both natural resources and basic human values. In the end, Shop 'Til You Drop helps us make sense of the economic turbulence of the moment, providing an unflinching, riveting look at the relationship between the limits of consumerism and our never-ending pursuit of happiness"--Container. 1 videodisc (52 min.)

MEDIA 10-2215

The Ad and the Id sex, death, and subliminal advertising 1992

Bernard McGrane and Harold Boiham

Shows how advertisements employ powerful subliminal images to influence and motivate consumers to buy. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-2242

 

Advertising & the end of the world 1998

Sut Jhally

"Extensively illustrated with graphics and examples from commercial imagery, Advertising and the End of the World presents a compelling and accessible argument about consumerism and its impact on the earth's future."--Container. 1 videocassette (47 min.)

MEDIA 2-3404

 

Barbie nation an unauthorized tour 1998

Susan Stern

"Journeying from Barbie conventions to anti-Barbie demonstrations, from girls' play dates to Barbie web pages, Barbie Nation plumbs the international cult of the Barbie doll, telling the Barbie stories of diverse men, women and children. At the center of Barbie Nation is the story of Barbie creator and Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler"--Container. 1 videocassette (54 min.)

MEDIA 2-5491

 

Behind the screens Hollywood goes hypercommercial 2000

Matt Soar, Susan Ericsson, Sut Jhally, Robert Waterman McChesney, Janet Wasko, Mark Crispin Miller, Susan J Douglas, Eileen R Meehan, and Jeremy Pikser

This program examines the invasion of mainstream big-budget movies by advertising and marketing. Five leading scholars and a screenwriter discuss the consequences of an ever-accelerated concentration of media ownership and suggest that this continues to have profound effects on contemporary American cultural life. 1 videocassette (37 min.)

MEDIA 2-5195

 

China after Tiananmen 1992

Irv Drasnin

Three years after the suppression of the student democracy movement in Tiananmen Square, veteran China-watcher/producer Irv Drasnin returns to China to find a country torn by the conflicting realities of liberal economic reform and continuing political repression.  Drasnin finds private enterprise and consumerism booming in China in contrast to the failing state-run companies and discovers a growing generation gap of beliefs, expectations and lifestyles. 1 videocassette (88 min.)

DANA 480

 

Consuming images 1994

Gail Pellett and Bill D Moyers

Explores how television, posters, and all types of advertisements have shaped our thoughts and expectations and created behavior patterns. Discusses how the media create images to sell products. Debates whether this is manipulative and trivializing, or if we are in an era where art and commerce have joined together. Have we become a democracy of passive consumers instead of active independent citizens? Bill Moyers discusses these questions with media experts Stuart Ewen, Neil Postman, and Mark Miller. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

DANA  MEDIA 351        2-933

 

Consuming kids the commercialization of childhood c2008

Adriana Barbaro, Jeremy Earp, Jason T Young, Alex Peterson, and Media Education Foundation

"Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids."--Container. 1 videodisc (72 min.)

MEDIA 10-1552

 

Decentralized communications projects 1995

Kate Horsfield

Representative works of the effort to redefine the asymmetrical relationship between production/transmission and reception/consumption in American telecommunications systems. 1 videocassette (116 min.)

MEDIA 2-3675

 

eCeskay sen The Czech dream c2007

Vit Klusaak, Filip Remunda, Morgan Spurlock, Hypermarket Film (Prague, Czech Republic), and Arts Alliance America (Firm)

Two Czech film students explore the manipulative powers of consumerism on post-communist Czechoslovakia by creating a marketing campaign for a super store that doesn't exist. (container). 1 videodisc (88 min.)

MEDIA 10-1846

 

Is Wal-Mart good for America? 2004

Hedrick Smith, Rick Young, WGBH Educational Foundation, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), and PBS Video

Examines Wal-Mart's importation of Chinese goods into the United States. Discusses that while some economists credit Wal-Mart's focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living in the U.S. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)

MEDIA 10-1416

 

It's a mall world 2001, c2006

Stan Feingold, David McIvride, Jim Cissell , Eyes Project Development Corp, Finale Editworks (Firm), Sound Kitchen (Firm), Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

An ideal discussion-launcher for sociology courses, this program examines cultural and psychological aspects of what is now an archetypal suburban experience: shopping at the mall. 1 videodisc (47 min.)

MEDIA 10-860

 

Judith Williamson consuming passionately in Southern California 1991?

Judith Williamson, John Greyson, Paper Tiger Television Collective (Firm), Art Institute of Chicago, and Video Data Bank

Demonstrates the effects of multi-national capitalism's expansion on the market with socks being an example and emphasises the role of ads.  This video looks at the communications industry via the print media. 1 videocassette (ca. 22 min.)

MEDIA 2-7441

 

Knock off die rache am logo 2004

Katharina Weingartner, Anette Baldauf, Knock Off Productions, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Arte (Firm), and First Run/Icarus Films

"A reflection on branding and globalization, framed by a journey up the world's longest shopping strip, Broadway in New York City, a veritable meridian of counterfeit selling... Documents an underground economy of people who resist the globalized culture of brands, by using the science of branding against itself" . 1 videodisc (44 min.)

MEDIA 10-1828

 

Luciano Benetton image maker c2006

Karl Olov Larsson, Christine Ockrent, Moderntv (Firm), Viasat Broadcasting Group, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)

Starting with a bicycle, his sisters knitting, and additional help from his two brothers, Luciano Benetton built one of the worlds most successful clothing companies. In this interview, the dominant personality behind the Benetton brand recounts his early years, his activities on the political and social landscape, and the innovative ways in which his company has communicated its image. 1 videodisc (42 min.)

MEDIA 10-1170

 

Malls r us 2009

Helene Klodawsky, Ina Fichman, Luc Martin-Gousset, Instinct Films, Point du Jour (Firm), and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Documentary that examines the social significance of shopping malls. 1 videodisc (78 min.) :

MEDIA 10-1968

 

Mama Benz & the taste of money c2002

Karin Junger, Carmen Cobos, Ryninks Films (Firm), IKON Televisie, Radio Nederland Television, and Filmakers Library, inc

A documentary on the marketing in West Africa of textiles produced by Vlisco, a Dutch company. The local market women who sell Vlisco cloth have become very wealthy and are affectionately referred to as Mama Benz because they can afford to have a chauffeured Mercedes Benz. This film focuses on the interplay between the men of Vlisco and the West African market women they depend on to sell their product. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-7207

 

Media interrupted the dissection of media in American culture : Media's influence on what we buy 2001

Amy Weber, Gene Pulice, and Gayle Friedman

Philosophers, communication professors and advertising executives discuss various aspects of the media's influence on consumer behavior. 1 videodisc (20 min.)

MEDIA 10-130

 

Merchandising the store as persuasion 2002

Jeffrey Schrank

Looks at the tactics store owners take to lure in customers and then encourage them to purchase.  Learn about store layout, shopping cart sizes, background music, markup, visual displays and more. 1 videocassette (24 min.)

MEDIA 2-1619

 

The merchants of cool 2003

Barak Goodman and Rachel Dretzin Goodman

Explores the culture in which today's American teenager is growing up and how they've come to view themselves and their parents. 1 videodisc (60 min.)

MEDIA. DANA 10-207  1454

 

No logo brands, globalization, resistance c2003

Naomi Klein, Sut Jhally, Loretta Alper, Kelly Garner, Naomi Klein, and Media Education Foundation

Using hundreds of media examples, No Logo shows how the commercial takeover of public space, destruction of consumer choice, and replacement of real jobs with temporary work (the dynamics of corporate globalization) impact everyone, everywhere. It also draws attention to the resistance arising globally to challenge the hegemony of brands. 1 DVD (42 min. +  min. additional footage)

  MEDIA 10-211

 

The overspent American why we want what we don't need c2003

Kelly Garner, Juliet Schor, and Media Education Foundation

"In this powerful new video, Juliet Schor scrutinizes what she calls 'the new consumerism'-- a national phenomenon of upscale spending that is shaped and reinforced by a commercially-driven media system. She argues that "keeping up with teh Joneses" is no longer enough for middle and upper-middle class Americans, many of whom become burdened with debilitating debt as they seek to emulate materialsitic TV lifestyles"--Container. 1 videodisc (32 min.)

MEDIA 10-275

 

Packaging the science of temptation 2001

Words on packages are subject to countless government restrictions, but reading words is one of the last things consumers do.  Learn how packages use languages that escape regulation. 1 videocassette (20 min.)

MEDIA 2-1618

 

The persuaders c2005

Barak Goodman, Rachel Dretzin Goodman, Muriel Soenens, Douglas Rushkoff, Ark Media (Firm), WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), WGBH Educational Foundation, and PBS Home Video

Examines the "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations. Shows how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their message into the fabric of our lives. Explores how the culture of marketing has come to shape the way Americans understand the world and themselves and how the techniques of the persuasion industries have migrated to politics. 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.)

DANA 372

 

Post-war U.S.A c1996

Henry Nevison, Dana Palermo, Catherine Samson, Charles Hardy, Art Levy, Hollis Payer, InVision Communications, and Schlessinger Video Productions

Examines post-war prosperity and the rise of the consumer society; the G.I. Bill; Truman and the Fair Deal; suburbanization and the "crabgrass frontier"; the Baby Boom; the birth of television and the influence of advertising; roles of women and the Feminine Mystique; the Cold War; the Korean War; the arms race; the Red Scare and McCarthyism; the early civil rights movement; teen rebellion and rock & roll. 1 videocassette (ca. 35 min.)

MEDIA 2-6614

 

Secret history of the credit card c2004

David Rummel, Lowell Bergman, New York Times Company, WGBH Educational Foundation , and PBS Video

This documentary investigates how the credit card industry became so pervasive, lucrative, and politically powerful. Explores the techniques used by the industry to earn large profits and get consumers to take on more debt. 1 videodisc (57 min.)

MEDIA 10-444

 

Store wars when Wal-Mart comes to town 2001

Micha X Peled and Monica Z Lam

This film follows events in Ashland, VA, over a one-year period, from the first stormy public hearing that galvanizes residents' opposition until the Town Council takes a final vote on the proposed Wal-Mart Store. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-6169

 

Who protects the consumer? 1980

Milton Friedman

Examines government protection of the market place and consumer.  It controls prices, quality of goods, and choice of products.  Do these protection agencies work or are there better ways? 1 videocassette (60 min.)

DANA 108

 

You can't get there from here ephemeral films, 1946-1960 1987

Rick Prelinger

Shows the dark side of America's postwar prosperity in films that promote a cornucopia of consumer goods, provide behavior checks for confused children, and shamelessly relegate women to the role of happy house wife. These films were produced to fulfill a specific commercial or educational purpose. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-535

 

ZARA fast fashion video c2003

Harvard University and Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation

Panel discussion with several key management members of the fashion firm Zara conducted by Harvard Business School Professor, Ghemawat Panká. Topics of discussion include: the global fashion industry, human resources, technology, word-of-mouth marketing, and global production. These were in response to the initial prompt for the panel to discuss the establishment and core features of Zara's business model, of which "Inditex" plays a central role. 1 videocassette (34 min.)

MEDIA 2-7820