{"id":1034,"date":"2011-11-22T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/11\/22\/hot-docs-the-bro-code-now-available-in-media-services\/"},"modified":"2011-11-22T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:00:00","slug":"hot-docs-the-bro-code-now-available-in-media-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/11\/22\/hot-docs-the-bro-code-now-available-in-media-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Docs:  The Bro Code now available in Media Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia\">&#8220;Filmmaker Thomas Keith takes aim at the forces in male culture that<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> condition boys and men to dehumanize and disrespect women. Keith<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> breaks down a range of contemporary media forms, zeroing in on movies<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> and music videos that glamorize womanizing, pornography that trades in<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> the brutalization of women, comedians who make fun of sexual assault,<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> and a groundswell of men&#8217;s magazines and cable TV shows that revel in<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> old-school myths of American manhood. Even as epidemic levels of men&#8217;s<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> violence against women persist in the real world, the message Keith<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> uncovers in virtually every corner of our entertainment culture is<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> clear: It&#8217;s not only normal &#8212; but cool &#8212; for boys and men to control<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> and humiliate women. Arguing that there&#8217;s nothing normal, natural, or<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> inevitable about this mentality, The Bro Code challenges young people,<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> young men and women alike, to step up and fight back against the idea<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> that being a real man means being sexist&#8221;&#8211;From publisher&#8217;s website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">DVD 9045<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Distributor description:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaed.org\/cgi-bin\/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&amp;key=246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.mediaed.org\/cgi-bin\/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&amp;key=246<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Filmmaker Thomas Keith takes aim at the forces in male culture that condition boys and men to dehumanize and disrespect women. Keith breaks down a range of contemporary media forms, zeroing in on movies and music videos that glamorize womanizing, pornography that trades in the brutalization of women, comedians who make fun of sexual assault, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19],"tags":[107,174],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-acquisitions","category-recommendations","tag-documentary","tag-hot-docs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}