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Support for ENGL 1301 & 1302 at Northeast College: Featured Streaming Media

This is a supporting Course Guide for ENGL 1301 & 1302 at Northeast College

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Maxine Peake, lead actress, with pixie haircut in low lighting

Hamlet | 2015 | 3h 12mins | A film of the ground-breaking Royal Exchange Theater production of Hamlet, with renowned British actress Maxine Peake in the title role.

Tough Guise 2 cover art, angry young boy, shirtless, arms crossed

Tough Guise 2 | 2013 | 1hr 20mins | In this highly anticipated update of the influential and widely acclaimed Tough Guise, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist Jackson Katz argues that the ongoing epidemic of men's violence in America is rooted in our inability as a society to move beyond outmoded ideals of manhood. In a sweeping analysis that cuts across racial, ethnic, and class lines, Katz examines mass shootings, day-to-day gun violence, violence against women, bullying, gay-bashing, and American militarism against the backdrop of a culture that has normalized violent and regressive forms of masculinity in the face of challenges to traditional male power and authority.

This Changes Everything: An Analysis of Gender Disparity in Hollywood cover art of a Hollywood star

This Changes Everything: An Analysis of Gender Disparity in Hollywood | 2018 | 1hr 35mins | Told first-hand by some of Hollywood's leading voices behind and in front of the camera, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING uncovers what is beneath one of the most confounding dilemmas in the entertainment industry - the under-representation and misrepresentation of women.

Cover art using a woman's silhouette made up of semi-clothed women

Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women, Episode 1 | 2010 | 2hrs 21mins | In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity.

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