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The Alabama State University Department of Communications and the Minorities And Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication are pleased to invite you to two public lectures and a special Alabama debut screening of the very recently released documentary: Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video.  The lecturers are Southeast, Southwest and Northeast Regional Field Directors for the National Organization for Women headquartered in Washington, D.C.

The first public lecture on “Media Issues and Women (with a special focus on African American women)” will be held in McGehee Hall 100, on the ASU campus, Monday 9/10/07, 10--10:50 a.m.

The second public lecture will be on “Anti-Sexism Work 101” - Women’s rights and the challenges and successes NOW, ACLU and other women’s rights organizations have encountered in the past several years, highlighting current cases and including a prelude on multi-racial organizing in the feminist movement and media coverage.  It is held in the Business Administration Building on ASU’s campus, room 306, from 11a.m. – 11:50 a.m., also on Monday 9/10/07.

On Tuesday 9/11/07, 11-- 12:15 the lecturers will provide a screening of Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video in the ASU television studio of the Levi Watkins Learning Center, room 547.  For more information on the documentary see the information and link below.

All events are free and open to the public.

Dreamworlds 3
Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video

NOW AVAILABLE

In this section:
Summary
Logistical Information
Biographical Summary
Reviews and Comments
Screenings and Festivals
Articles

Summary:

Dreamworlds 3, the highly anticipated update of Sut Jhally's groundbreaking Dreamworlds 2 (1995), examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and encourages viewers to consider how these narratives shape individual and cultural attitudes about sexuality. Illustrated with hundreds of up-to-date images, Dreamworlds 3 offers a unique and powerful tool for understanding both the continuing influence of music videos and how pop culture more generally filters the identities of young men and women through a dangerously narrow set of myths about sexuality and gender. In doing so, it inspires viewers to reflect critically on images that they might otherwise take for granted.

NOW AVAILABLE

Logistical Information:

Written & Directed by Sut Jhally

NOTE: A 35-minute abridged version, with less nudity & profanity, is recommended for high school audiences. (Coming soon - please call for information).

Biographical Summary:

Sut Jhally is a professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation (MEF). He is one of the most popular teachers at the University of Massachusetts and is nationally known among college students for his videotape Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video,which he created to present his critique of representations of women in popular culture and commercial images. The national attention, sparked by the threat of a lawsuit by MTV, and numerous requests for copies of the video led to the founding of the Media Education Foundation in 1991. Over the past fifteen years, Sut Jhally has been the executive producer of more than twenty videos produced and distributed by the Media Education Foundation.

He is the author of The Codes of Advertising, The Spectacle of Accumulation: Essays in Cultural Politics, and co-author of Social Communication in Advertising, and Enlightened Racism. He is also co-editor of Cultural Politics in Contemporary America and Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire. He has written broadly on issues of popular representation and is regarded as one of the world’s leading cultural studies scholar in the area of advertising, media, and consumption.

For more information see: http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaGenderAndDiversity/Dreamworlds3

Sincerely,

Rev. Dr. E-K. Daufin, Professor

Department of Communications

Alabama State University

915 South Jackson St.

Montgomery, AL 36101-0271

334.229.6885

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