Reading the Media()
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Seasons: 1
Episodes: 5
Founded by a collective of radical media makers in 1981, Paper Tiger Television pioneered edutainment. Broadcast on public access television, the collective took a grassroots, DIY approach to media production that showcased how television was made through television, while critiquing corporate media and attempting to build a more equitable form of moving image. As one of the founders put it: “It is one thing to critique the mass media and rail against their abuses. It is quite another to create viable alternatives.” Punk and experimental, Paper Tiger Television was such an alternative. The series, Reading the Media, featured all manner of intellectuals, artists, and activists analyzing, and satirizing newspapers, magazines, and even cigarette ads to decipher their hidden codes, messages, and ideologies.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 5E01
Donna Haraway Reads 'The National Geographic'
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Donna Haraway— of A Cyborg Manifesto fame, and one of today’s most recognized public intellectuals—reads National Geo...
E02
Flo Kennedy Reads U.S. Press on South Africa
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With dry wit and unremitting intensity lawyer, actor, and activist Florynce “Flo” Kennedy investigates the way U.S. m...
E03
Noam Chomsky Reads the New York Times
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Linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky discusses U.S. foreign policy towards Central America through deconstruction ...
E04
Martha Rosler Reads Vogue
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Vogue: It is glamour. It is excitement, romance, drama, wishing, dreaming, winning, success. The artist Martha Rosler...
E05
Murray Bookchin Reads Time Magazine
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Historian, political philosopher, environmentalist, and anarchist Murray Bookchin demonstrates how Time magazine obli...
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