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Dreamworlds 2: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video. Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation, 1995. 55 minutes. $195/$125 for high schools; transcript available.
Behind the Screens: Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial. Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation, 2000. 37 minutes. $250/$125 for high schools; study guide available.
A decade has elapsed and a century has turned since the University of Massachusetts Communication Professor Sut Jhally's nationally publicized battle with MTV over his original Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video educational video of 1990. Although he had shared with colleagues only about 100 copies of his scathing examination of negative female representations in music videos, Jhally received a cease and desist letter from MTV(R), warning him to stop distribution or MTV(R) would institute suit on the grounds of copyright violation. (Ironically, MTV was itself concurrently conducting an anticensorship campaign and did not pursue legal action.)
The following year, Jhally established the Media Education Foundation (MEF) as an independent nonprofit organization to produce and disseminate educational videotapes as well as conduct research on timely media issues with a stellar Board of Advisors that today includes Noam Chomsky, Susan Douglas, Susan Faludi, George Gerbner, Todd Gitlin, Stuart Hall, bell hooks, Robert W. McChesney, and...