Media Education Foundation

11/20/2024

Attending the National Communication Association conference this week? Us too! Come visit us at Booth #211 to learn more about MEF and our collection of educational documentaries.

11/07/2024

Trump’s appeal to young men in the 2024 election created a powerful narrative that resonated deeply with male voters, especially those feeling sidelined, making him the perfect “man’s candidate.”

The Man Card: 50 Years of Gender, Power & the American Presidency sheds light on how gender dynamics, identity politics, and media narratives have played a critical role in the success of Trump in the 2024 election. Hear more from Jackson Katz in this NPR segment from yesterday and learn more about The Man Card here: www.themancardmovie.com

Vice President Harris focused her campaign on women’s reproductive freedoms, and President-elect Donald Trump focused on turning out men to vote. NPR speaks with two experts.

10/29/2024

We are thrilled to be attending and exhibiting at Charleston-Hub's Charleston Conference, an informal global gathering for the scholarly communication community!

Come see us at Booth #135 next month to learn more about MEF and our catalog of educational documentary films!

More info about the conference: https://bit.ly/3BDdZaG

10/28/2024

"'The Man Card: 50 Years of Gender, Power & the American Presidency' is rich with content and context for voters to make sense of the gender politics playing out in the election."

Read writer and activist Rob Okun's review of The Man Card in Ms. Magazine here:

Documentary 'The Man Card' Illuminates Gender's Role in Presidential Campaigns and Challenges Men to Get Involved

10/28/2024

10/28/2024

So exciting to see students engaging with The Cure for Hate! Find more info about the film here: http://bit.ly/4e3MV1x

10/22/2024

is almost here! If you're looking for resources to to start relevant conversations in your community, we encourage you to screen the groundbreaking documentary More Than a Word, directed by John and Kenn Little.

More Than a Word traces the destructive, real-world impact of racist cultural stereotypes, and pays tribute to the ongoing Native American-led struggle to eliminate indigenous team names and mascots from U.S. sports culture. With eye-opening commentary from Native American scholars and activists, More Than a Word serves as a necessary reminder that words, images, and struggles over meaning have the power to shape history.

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More than a dozen states and over 100 cities across the nation observed Indigenous Peoples' Day on October 14th, setting the stage for National Native American Heritage Month in November. If you're looking for resources to help mark these occasions, we ...

09/27/2024

For a lot of educators, NFL football might seem like the last thing worth spending time analyzing and discussing in the classroom.

But for acclaimed The Nation Magazine writer Dave Zirin, the co-producer and host of our bestselling film Behind the Shield: The Power & Politics of the NFL, the National Football League’s astonishing TV ratings dominance has given it cultural, and even political, power and influence that extend far beyond sports in ways we ignore at our own peril.

“The National Football League is the closest thing we have to a national language and a national religion,” Zirin says at the start of Behind the Shield. “And the fact is, more than any other major American sport, the league has explicitly built its brand on a whole complex of images and messages that have helped shape everything from dominant ideas about patriotism, militarism, and war, to gender norms and our conception of American manhood, to the politics of race, to the meaning of corporate power in U.S. society."

If you’re looking for a classroom tool to inspire critical thinking and dialogue about our current political and cultural moment, don’t miss Zirin’s fascinating, fast-paced analysis in Behind the Shield. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4gFFAbc

Author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politics before Colin Kaepernick and other Black NFL players took a knee.

09/25/2024

Don't miss this!

TODAY! Don't miss out on a live Q&A with award-winning filmmaker, Byron Hurt , to discuss his film HAZING. The event will take place via Zoom at 7pm ET.

Register for free access to view the film, courtesy of our partners at Media Education Foundation, and for the virtual event at stophazing.org/NHAW-2024!

09/23/2024

When Kamala Harris squared off against Donald Trump on the presidential debate stage the other week, she wasn’t just taking on a man who has built his political career on amped-up displays of hypermasculine aggression and bravado.

As only the second woman ever to win her party’s nomination, she was also up against nearly 250 years of history in which presidential leadership, and the office of the presidency itself, have come to be linked in the American imagination with traditional ideas about manhood and masculinity.

If you’re interested in taking a closer look at these dynamics, don’t miss our new film The Man Card: 50 Years of Gender, Power & the American Presidency, a fully revised update of our 2020 film of the same title. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3B8Mm9c

When Kamala Harris squared off against Donald Trump on the presidential debate stage last week, she wasn't just taking on a man who has built his political career on amped-up displays of hypermasculinity...

09/23/2024

Check out the incredible programming that StopHazing has scheduled for National Hazing Awareness Week! We've partnered with them again to offer free streaming access to the award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt's critically acclaimed documentary Hazing, a deeply personal look inside the culture, tradition, and secrecy of hazing rituals in fraternities and sororities and beyond.

And Wednesday night, don't miss their live Q&A with Byron Hurt Documentary Filmmaker to chat about the film. https://bit.ly/3XO8b6L

If you're looking for resources for National Hazing Awareness Week next month (Sept. 23-27), don't miss award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt's critically acclaimed new documentary In the film, Hurt, who belongs to a fraternity himself, talks to members o...

09/23/2024

So happy to be partnering with StopHazing again for this years' National Hazing Awareness Week!