Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video

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Dreamworlds 3 (Unabridged)
Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video

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.

Sections: Introduction | Techniques of Storytelling | Constructing Femininity | The Pornographic Imagination | Ways of Looking | Female Artists: Trapped in the Pornographic Gaze | Masculinity & Control
Filmmaker Info
Writer, Editor, Narrator: Sut Jhally
Musical Director and Composer: Joe Bartone II
Musicians: Paul Eggleston, Peter Corcoral, Peter Muller, Joshua Theyer, Joseph Bartone
Research: Jeremy Smith, Kelly Bovio

Filmmaker's Bio
SUT JHALLY | Writer, Editor & Narrator
Sut Jhally is Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Founder and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation. He is one of the world's leading scholars looking at the role played by advertising and popular culture in the processes of social control and identity construction. The author of numerous books and articles on media (including The Codes of Advertising and Enlightened Racism) he is also an award-winning teacher (a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Massachusetts, where the student newspaper has also voted him "Best professor"). In addition, he has been awarded the Distinguished Outreach Award, and was selected to deliver a Distinguished Faculty Lecture in 2007.

He is best known as the producer and director of a number of films and videos (including Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video; Tough Guise: Media, Violence and the Crisis of Masculinity; and Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire) that deal with issues ranging from gender, sexuality and race to commercialism, violence and politics. Born in Kenya, raised in England, educated in graduate studies in Canada, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Praise for the Film
"After watching Dreamworlds 3, students may continue to look at music videos, but they will never see them the same way again."
- Michael Kimmel | Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook

"The role of media images in our everyday lives has never been more powerfully demonstrated."
- Robin Rieske | President, Action Coalition for Media Education - Vermont

"An invaluable teaching tool. Does a superb job of presenting difficult truths about our hypersexualized, hypermasculinized culture. Never has it been more important for us to confront those truths."
- Robert Jensen | Professor of Journalism, University of Texas

"There exists widespread cultural sensitivity to fairness and tolerance, any many significantly-noted eruptions of bigotry or misogyny seem to be met with the disclaimer that the issue might somehow open a cultural debate." Arguably, though, the debate never really occurs, and few serious outlets have investigated the cultural and pop-cultural causes and relationships of these issues and overall social consciousness. Of these few serious studies that offer useful, logical information while providing a forum for debate is Sut Jhally's Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video. A follow-up to Dreamworlds and Dreamworlds 2 (1991 and 1995, respectively), Dreamworlds 3 continues the investigation of the social constructs of music videos and how they draw from, reinforce, and shape cultural ideas and ideals about masculinity, femininity, and individualism... Dreamworlds 3 is an important and useful work. For its study of the interplay between the larger culture and music videos, it is highly recommended for collections that focus on pop-culture; for its investigation on the objectification of people, it is essential for women's or gender studies; for the deconstruction of narrative and film techniques, it is important in film and media studies; and for anyone at all invested in the debate regarding the media's influence on culture, it is highly recommended overall."
- Educational Media Reviews Online

"...An intelligent meditation on the severely limited and limiting images of women (and men) in the reigning music videos."
- C.E. Emmer | Emporia State University

"...Invites far-reaching reflection upon the mutually reinforcing relationship between the content of music videos and the popular culture they reflect and define... Highly recommended for all public and academic libraries."
-Library Journal

"Incisive"
- Newsweek

"A scathing examination of pop video's use and abuse of women."
- Los Angeles Times

"Young adults are exposed to a barrage of media, including music videos, and they should be encouraged to critically evaluate the messages implicit within the medium. If this is one of your goals in the classroom, Dreamworlds 3 can serve you admirably. When we showed it to our Psychology of Women class, the film resonated particularly with black women, some of who expressed a general frustration and ambivalence toward hip hop portrayals of women. Several young women, as well as men, stated that the film has helped them to better articulate their own reactions to music videos. The film does not demand that the audience adopt Jhally's conclusions, but instead asks that viewers begin to develop their own critical eyes."
- Harmony B. Sullivan and Maureen C. McHugh | Sex Roles: A Journal of Research