Tough Guise systematically examines the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century.

This is short documentary, only 45 minutes. It consists of Jean Kilbourne delivering a lecture with slides. She has done this many times. She is organised and clear. Every point she makes she emphasises with real world examples of ads from magazines. With those example, there is no way anyone could contradict her.

这部开创性的纪录片仔细分析了电影史上中伤性的一面。它自最早的默片时代形成，直到如今好莱坞最轰动的电影，仍然不受质疑地存在着。以优秀的作者杰克・沙亨博士为导演的这部影片探索了阿拉伯人的一长串受歧视的形象——从流浪的匪盗、逆来顺受的少女到阴险的酋长、挥动着枪的“恐怖分子”——一路辛辣地洞察着这些老套形象的起源，它们在美国历史上发展的核心观点，以及如今为什么它们非常重要。沙亨显示了这些固定的形象是如何经年累月地慢慢使人们对阿拉伯人和阿拉伯文化充满偏见，在这个过程中美国电影人不断强调个体阿拉伯人狭窄的视角，和具体的美国国内国际政策对阿拉伯人生活的影响。随着对社会、政治、不再带着好莱坞式讽刺漫画的基本的人性逻辑的批判性思考不断兴起，这部影片向观看者发出挑战，要使人们认识到公正地看待阿拉伯人的多样性和人性，还有阿拉伯历史和文化真实丰富的迫切需要。

In the age of the brand, logos are everywhere. But why do some of the world's best-known brands find themselves on the wrong end of the spray paint can # the targets of anti-corporate campaigns by activists and protestors? No Logo, based on the best-selling book by Canadian journalist and activist Naomi Klein, reveals the reasons behind the backlash against the increasing economic and cultural reach of multinational companies. Analyzing how brands like Nike,The Gap, and Tommy Hilfiger became revered symbols worldwide, Klein argues that globalization is a process whereby corporations discovered that profits lay not in making products (outsourced to low-wage workers in developing countries), but in creating branded identities people adopt in their lifestyles. 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 democratic resistance arising globally to challenge the hegemony of brands.
Written by Loretta Alper

In this adaptation of his paradigm-shifting book, Edward Said examines the origins and evolution of Western attitudes towards the Middle East. Said shows how perceptions of the Middle East as an exotic land full of villains and terrorists are deeply rooted in the Western imagination, and argues that this caricatured cultural heritage continues to blind too many Europeans and Americans to the complexity and diversity of the region.

"That's the power of the discourse of Orientalism. If you're thinking about people and Islam, and about that part of the wold, those are the words you constantly have to use. To think past it, to go beyond it, not to use it, is virtually impossible, because there is no knowledge that isn't codified in this way about that part of the world." - Edward Said