Media Literacy: Media Representation

• Critical Media Project

  Critical Media Project (CMP) is a free media literacy web resource for educators and students (ages 8-21) that enhances young people’s critical thinking and empathy, and builds on their capacities to advocate for change around questions of identity.

      CMP has a two-fold mission:

• To raise critical awareness and provide the tools to decode media representations of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socio-economic class, religion, age, and disability, and develop an understanding as to how these identities intersect
• To encourage and offer guidance for students to tell their own stories, create their own representations, and uphold their status as active and engaged participants in civic society.

• Hollywood Diversity Report 2021

  Ralph Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA

• Inequality in 1,100 Popular Films: Examining Portrayals of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, LGBT & Disability from 2007 to 2017

  Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at USC Annenberg

The following databases/films can be found in the database section of the UAB Libraries homepage. This is just a representative listing.

Academic Video Online

• Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies - https://uab.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/beyond-wiseguys-italian-americans-the-movies
• Blaxploitalian - https://uab.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/blaxploitalian-100-years-of-blackness-in-italian-cinema-2 
• The Celluloid Closet - https://uab.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/the-celluloid-closet 
• Hollywood Et Les Indiens - https://uab.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/hollywood-et-les-indiens

Kanopy

• Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream - https://uab.kanopy.com/video/brand-new-you-makeover-television-and-american-dream
• Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class - https://uab.kanopy.com/video/class-dismissed-0
• The Codes of Gender - Identity & Performance in Popular Culture - http://uab.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://uab.kanopy.com/video/codes-gender
• The Illusionists - https://uab.kanopy.com/video/illusionists
• Killing Us Softly – Advertising’s Image of Women: Do you want the newest (2010) film -http://uab.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://uab.kanopy.com/video/killing-us-softly
• Latinos Beyond Reel – Challenging a Media Stereotype - https://uab.kanopy.com/video/latinos-beyond-reel-challenging-media-stereotype
• Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People - http://uab.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://uab.kanopy.com/video/reel-bad-arabs-how-hollywood-vilifies-people
• Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media - https://uab.kanopy.com/video/stuart-hall-representation-media