List of Media Literacy Library Materials
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Categories
Activism, Advertising and Consumer Awareness
Digital Technology
Gay and Lesbian Issues
Gender, Sexuality, and Body Image
General Media and Media Literacy
Health and Substance Use
Journalism and News Analysis
Media Literacy K-12 Curriculum
Media Literacy Theory and Media Effects
Media Violence and Conflict Resolution
Multicultural Issues
Politics, Citizenship, and History
Popular Media Examples for Analysis
Research and Assessment
Video Production
Miscellaneous Curriculum Materials

Activism, Advertising and Consumer Awareness
B Goodman, Teaching Youth Media: A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production and Social Change [CML 1471]
B Graydon, Made You Look: How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know [CML 1514]
B Hazan, We the Media: A Citizen’s Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy
B Johnson, How to Talk Back to Your Television Set
B Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
B Seiter, Sold Separately: Children and Parents in Consumer Culture
B Steinberg, Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood
CD Hands-On Media Literacy: Valuable Skills for Teens and Young Learners [NMMLP]
M Adbusters [available by subscription]
M Zillions (Consumers Union) [available by subscription]
V Affluenza (KCTS)
V Behind the Screens: Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial (MEF) [MEF]
V Buy Me That!: A Kids’ Survival Guide to TV Advertising [CML 1204.001]
V Buy Me That Too: A Kids’ Survival Guide to TV Advertising [CML 1204.002]
V Buy Me That 3: A Kids’ Survival Guide to TV Advertising [CML 1204.003]
V Culture Jammers: 6 Television Uncommercials (EVC)
V Escape from Affluenza (KCTS, Bullfrog Films)
V Media Matters: War of Words (Thirteen)
V Media Youthanasia (EVC)
V Merchants of Cool – Frontline (PBS) [CML 1444]
V Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power (MEF) [MEF]
V The Monster that Ate Hollywood – Frontline (PBS) [CML 1442]
V The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need (MEF) [MEF]
V Spin, Hype and Blitz (Pennsylvania State University) [CML 1319]
V T.O.T.A.L. – Teens Opposed to Advertising Lies (Community Media Center of Santa Rosa)
V Toxic Sludge is Good for You: The Public Relations Industry Unspun (MEF) [MEF]

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Digital Technology
B Brewer, Technology Integration in the 21st Century Classroom
B DigitalXposure: Formulas for Designing with Digital Photography (Dimensional Illustrators, Inc.)
B Geisert, Teachers, Computers and Curriculum: Microcomputers in the Classroom
B Glister, Digital Literacy [CML 1024]
B Packard Foundation, The Future of Children: Children and Computer Technology
CK Know TV Meets the Internet: Exploring Truth, Falsehood and Uncertainty through Media Literacy Activities (Media Literacy Project)
M Wired [available by subscription]
TG Five Sites for Kids: Where Fun and Learning Click! (CPB)
TG The Web-Savvy Student: Ten Media Literacy Activities to Help Students Use the Internet Wisely (Hedberg) [CML 1316]

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Gay and Lesbian Issues
B Tropiano, The Prime-Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV
V Free to Be Me: Homophobia Workshop (EVC)
V Whose Voice, Whose Story? A High School English Lesson about Media Representations of Gays and Lesbians (Project Look Sharp)

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Gender, Sexuality and Body Image
B Brumberg, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
B Goffman, Gender Advertisements
B Greenfield, Girl Culture
B Kilbourne, Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel [CML 1313]
B Pipher, Reviving Ophelia
TG Break the Lies that Bind: Sexism in the Media (Media & Values) [CML 1255]
TG Men, Myth and Media (Media & Values) [CML 1255]
TG Redesigning Women (Media & Values) [CML 1255]
V Body Talk 1: Ages 12 & Up (The Body Positive) [CML 1557.001]
V Body Talk 2, It’s a New Language: Ages 8-11 (The Body Positive) [CML 1557.002]
V Body Talk 3, My Special Body: Ages 6 to 9 (The Body Positive) [CML 1557.003]
V Girl Talk (The Body Positive)
V Killing Us Softly 3 (MEF) [CML 1516] [MEF]
V Meat (Tisch School of the Arts) [CML 1240]
V Self-Image: The Fantasy, the Reality (In the Mix) [CML 1245]
V Slim Hopes (MEF) [CML 1246] [MEF]
V Teen Sexuality in a Culture of Confusion (MEF) [CML 1148] [MEF]
V Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity (MEF) [CML 1252] [MEF]
V What a Girl Wants (MEF) [CML 1344] [MEF]
V Wrestling with Manhood: Boys, Bullying & Battering (MEF) [MEF]

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Journalism and News Analysis
B Front Page: Covers of the Twentieth Century
B Lutz, Reading National Geographic [CML 1078]
B McKibbon, The Age of Missing Information
B Schudson, The Sociology of News
CK American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS Home Video)
M Brill’s Content
TG Creating a New York Times Vocabulary in Your Classroom (NY Times)
TG The New York Times in the College & University Classroom (NY Times)
TG News for the ‘90s: How to Analyze the News Media (Media & Values)
TG Newspaper in Education Elementary Activities (Newspaper Association of America)
TG Not in the Public Interest: Local TV News in America (Rocky Mountain Media Watch)
TG Using National Newspapers in the College Classroom (Greenman)
TG Using the New York Times as Your Journalism Textbook (National Resource Center)
TG Using the Newspaper in Secondary Social Studies (Guenther)
TG Using the Newspaper in Upper Elementary and Middle Grades (Morse)
V American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS Home Video)
V Get the News?? (In the Mix) [CML 1474]
V The News is Next...20 Years of NPR's Morning Edition (Museum of Television & Radio)
V What Makes News? (Media & Values)

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General Media and Media Literacy
B Axelrod, TV-Proof Your Kids
B Barnouw, Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television [CML 1104]
B Chen, The Smart Parent’s Guide to Kid’s TV
B DeBoer, Returning Light to the Wind
B DeGaetano, Screen Smarts: A Family Guide to Media Literacy
B Heide, The Problem with Pulcifer
B Heins, Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship (Free Expression Policy Project)
B Kaye, The Family Guide to Children’s Television: What to Watch, What to Miss, What to Change, and How to Do It
B McCarthy, Michigan Parents' Answer Book
B Rosengren, ed., Imagining the Impossible: Magincal, Scientific, and Religious Thinking in Children
B The RIF Guide to Encouraging Young Readers [Reading is Fundamental, Inc.]
B Schrag, Taming the Wild Tube: A Family’s Guide to Television and Video
B Singer, Teaching Television: How to Use TV to Your Child’s Advantage
B Ziefert, When the TV Broke [CML 1119]
CD Understanding Media [NMMLP]
CK Creating Critical TV Viewers (Pacific Mountain Network) [CML 1238]
CK Flashpoint: Life Skills through the Lens of Media Literacy (Violence, Substance Use, Prejudice) (Massachusetts Eastern District Attorney)
CK Flashpoint II: Life Skills through the Lens of Media Literacy (Hate Crimes, Civil Rights, Prejudice and Stereotyping) (Massachusetts Eastern District Attorney)
CK Is Seeing Believing? How Can You Tell What’s Real? (Newseum) [CML 1140]
CK Kids Talk TV: Inside/Out (United Church of Christ) [CML 1142]
CK Mass Media and Popular Culture (includes V Scanning Television) [CML 1049]
CK Media Matters: Critical Thinking in the Information Age (South-Western Educational Publishing)
CK Signal to Noise (3 videos) (Mixed Media) [CML 1147]
CK Theodore Tugboat: Ready to Learn (Cochran Entertainment)
CK TV Alert: A Wake-Up Guide for Television (includes V Creating Critical TV Viewers) (CML)[CML 1266]
CK TV & Me (Millar)
CK Watching Television Critically (S.T.A.R.T Communications)
M Telemedium [Available by subscription or with National Telemedia Council membership]
M Television & Families (National Council for Families & Television)
SW Taking Charge of Your TV: A Critical Viewing Workshop for Parents and Children (Family & Community Critical Viewing Project)
TG Active Viewing: The Learning Channel Media Literacy Workshop for Educators (The Learning Channel)
TG Coming of Age: Media and the Mature Audience (Media & Values)
TG Condry, Coping with Television
TG Creating Critical Viewers (National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; The Pacific Mountain Network)
TG Living in the Image Culture: An Introductory Primer for Media Literacy (Media & Values)
TG Media Literacy (Ontario Ministry of Education)
TG Parenting in a TV Age (Media & Values) [CML 1262]
TG Tuning in to Television: News, Views and How to Live With It (Media & Values) [CML 1266.001/002]
TG The TV Book: Talking Back to Your TV (Shelagh Wallace) [CML 1105]
TG WXXI Ready to Learn Activity Guide (WXXI)
V Music on the Mind (EVC)
V Production Notes: Fast Food for Thought (Video Date Bank)
V The Public Mind: Image and Reality in America, Consuming Images (Films for the Humanities & Sciences)
V Scanning Television (includes CK Mass Media and Popular Culture) [CML 1049]
V Spin (Video Data Bank)
V The Truman Show (Paramount)
V Tube Babies (EVC)
V Tuned In (The Puzzle Place)
V Tuning in to Media Literacy for the Information Age (Media Literacy Outreach) [CML 1249]
V TV: What You Don’t See (In the Mix) [CML 1251]

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Health and Substance Use
B ONDCP, Helping Youth Navigate the Media Age: A New Approach to Drug Prevention
B Heaton, Tuning in Trouble: Talk TV’s Destructive Impact on Mental Health
CD Media Literacy for Health: A K-12 Activity Curriculum [NMMLP]
CK Blowing Smoke: A Grade 6-8 Curriculum for Analyzing Messages about Tobacco Use in Movies (University of Arizona)
CK Crack Clouds Over Hell's Kitchen (EVC)
CK Living a Lie: The Alcoholic Family (Human Relations Media)
CK Media Sharp: Analyzing Tobacco and Alcohol Messages (CDC)
CK Selling Addiction (CML)
TG The Birds, The Bees and Broadcasting: What the Media Teaches our Kids about Sex (Media & Values)
TG Smoke and Mirrors: Media Literacy and Tobacco (National Institute on Media & the Family) [CML 1294]
TG Teen Drinking Prevention Program (Center for Substance Abuse Prevention)
V AIDS: Fact over Fear (EVC)
V Analyzing Tobacco & Alcohol Messages [Media Sharp]
V Blues Clues: Episode 101: "Snacktime" (Nick Jr. Production)
V The Last Cigarette (New Yorker Films)
V Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered (In the Mix) [CML 1248]

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Media Literacy K-12 Curriculum
B Brunner, The New Media Literacy Handbook [CML 1069]
B Cecil, Literacy and the Arts for the Integrated Classroom: Alternative Ways of Knowing
B Considine, Visual Messages: Integrating Imagery into Instruction [CML 1115]
B Golden, Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom [CML 1343]
B Kaiser, Seeing through Maps: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View
B Livesley, Media Scenes & Class Acts [CML 1158]
B McNeil, The Essentials of Teaching: Decisions, Plans, Methods
B Murray, It Ain’t Necessarily So: How Media Make and Unmake the Scientific Picture of Reality
B Semali, Literacy in Multimedia America: Integrating Media Education Across the Curriculum
B Shor, Critical Teaching and Everyday Life
B Teasley, Reel Conversations: Reading Films with Young Adults [CML 1081]
B Worsnop, Screening Images: Ideas for Media Education [CML 1091]
CD Media and Storytelling [NMMLP]
CK Assignment: Media Literacy [Elementary] (Discovery Communications) [CML 1457]
CK Assignment: Media Literacy [Middle School] (Discovery Communications) [CML 1457]
CK Assignment: Media Literacy [High School] (Discovery Communications) [CML 1457]
CK Media Matters: Critical Thinking in the Information Age (South-Western Educational Publishing)
TG Analyzing and Creating Images in the Early Elementary Classroom (Hobbs)
TG Creating Competent Communicators: Activities for Teaching Speaking, Listening and Media Literacy in Grades 7-12 (Cooper) [CML 1468]
TG Getting Kids Published: A Practical Guide for Helping Young Authors See Their Works in Print (Whitfield) [CML 1414]
TG Media Sense 4 (Booth) [CML 1210.001]
TG Media Sense 5 (Booth) [CML 1210.002]
TG Media Sense 6 (Booth) [CML 1210.003]
V Many Ways to See the World: A Thirty-Minute Tour of Intriguing World Map Images (ODT)

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Media Literacy Theory and Media Effects
B Alvermann, Popular Culture in the Classroom: Teaching and Researching Critical Media Literacy [CML 1274]
B American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS) (Accompanying Video Set)
B Brown, Television “Critical Viewing Skills” Education: Major Media Literacy Projects In the United States and Selected Countries
B Brunner & Tally, The New Media Literacy Handbook
B Bryant, Perspectives on Media Effects
B Cable in the Classroom, Thinking Critically about Media: Schools and Families in Partnership
B Cantor, Mommy, I’m Scared: How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What We Can Do to Protect Them [CML 1064]
B Comstock, Television and the American Child
B Condry, The Psychology of Television
B Dorr, Television and Children: A Special Medium for a Special Audience
B Duncan & Tyner (Eds.), Visions/Revisions: Moving Forward with Media Education
B Minnow, Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television and the First Amendment
B Greenfield, Mind and Media: The Effects of Television, Video Games and Computers
B Healy, Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Don’t Think
B Healy, Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds – For Better and Worse
B Heins, Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship [CML 1525]
B Huston, Big World, Small Screen: The Role of Television in American Society
B Johnson, Media, Education and Change [CML 1312]
B McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage
B Palmer, Television and America’s Children: A Crisis of Neglect
B Potter, Media Literacy [CML 1054]
B Reston, The Artillery of the Press: Its Influence on American Foreign Policy
B Silverblatt, Media Literacy: Keys to Interpreting Media Messages
B Silverblatt, Ferry & Finan, Approaches to Media Literacy: A Handbook
B Singer & Singer, Handbook of Children and the Media
B Thompson, Television’s Second Golden Age
B Tuchman, Ed., The TV Establishment Programming for Power and Profit
B Van Evra, Television and Child Development
B Ward, How Children Learn to Buy: The Development of Consumer Information-Processing Skills
Weber, The Use and Abuse of Television: A Social Psychological Analysis of the Changing Screen
B Zillmann, Media, Children and the Family: Social Scientific, Psychodynamic and Clinical Perspectives
M High Time for "Dis-Illusioning" Ourselves and our Media: Media Literacy in the 21st Century, Part I: Strategies for School (K-12 and Higher Education), American Behavioral Scientist Vol. 48, No. 1, Sept. 2004 (Sage Publications)
M High Time for "Dis-Illusioning" Ourselves and our Media: Media Literacy in the 21st Century, Part II: Strategies for the General Public, American Behavioral Scientist Vol. 48, No. 2, Oct. 2004 (Sage Publications)
B American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS) (Accompanying Video Set)
V Can You Believe TV Ratings? (WGBH)
V The Impact of Violent Television Programs and Movies: Brad Bushman (Iowa State University)
V The Impact of Violent Video Games: Craig Anderson (Iowa State University)
V Media Literacy (California Newsreel)
V Teach the Children (On Television)
V The Psychology of Media Violence: Why It Has a Lasting Impact on Children: Rowell Huesmann (Iowa State University)

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Media Violence & Conflict Resolution
B National Television Violence Study-Executive Summary, 1994-1995 (Mediascope, Inc.)
B National Television Violence Study-Scientific Papers, 1994-1995 (Mediascope, Inc.)
CK Beyond Blame: Challenging Violence in the Media (Center for Media Literacy) [CML 1202]
SW Let’s Talk about Living in a World with Violence (Garbarino)
TG Media and Violence: Part One, Making the Connections (Media & Values) [CML 1213]
TG Media and Violence: Part Two, Searching for Solutions (Media & Values) [CML 1213]
TG Responding to Media Violence: Starting Points for Classroom Practice (Metropolitan Toronto School Board) [CML 1085]
V Beyond Good & Evil: Children, Media & Violent Times (MEF) [MEF]
V Hate.com: Extremists on the Internet (Films for the Humanities)
V The Killing Screens: Media and the Culture of Violence (MEF) [MEF]

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Multicultural Issues
B Bird, Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture
B Chideya, The Color of Our Future: Race for the 21st Century
B Hirschfelder, American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children
B Shaheen, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People [CML 1428]
B Slapin, Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children
CK A Place at the Table: Struggles for Equality in America (Teaching Tolerance)
CK 2371 Second Avenue: An East Harlem Story (Educational Video Center)
SW 10 Little Whitepeople (Slapin)
SW Basic Skills Caucasian Americans Workbook (Slapin)
V Blacks & Jews: Are they Really Sworn Enemies? (Educational Video Center)
V Breaking through Stereotypes (EVC)
V Color Adjustment (California Newsreel) [CML 1368]
V Gringo in Mañanaland (EVC)
V Skool of Many Faces (EVC)

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Politics, Citizenship, and History
B Carnes, Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
B Hess, The Media and the War on Terrorism
B McGinniss, The Selling of the President, 1968
B Patterson, The Unseeing Eye: The Myth of Television Power in National Politics
B Wakin, How TV Changed America’s Mind [CML 1035]
CD Media and Democracy [NMMLP]
CK Media Construction of Presidential Campaigns: A Document-Based History Kit (Project Look Sharp) [CML 1559]
CK Media Construction of War: A Critical Reading of History (Project Look Sharp) [CML 1524]
CK National Issues Forums-in the Classroom: A High School Program on Deliberative Democracy (National Issues Forums Institute)
CK View Smart to Vote Smart (Family & Critical Viewing Project)
TG Citizenship in a Media Age: Building the Common Good (Media & Values) [CML 1256]
V Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (MEF) [MEF]
V Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land: U.S. Media & The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (MEF) [MEF]
V Political Advertisements (Video Data Bank)
V Politics: Sifting through the Spin (In the Mix)

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Popular Media Examples for Analysis
B Brooks, Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year 2003 [CML 1416]
B Disney, Aladdin
B Heimann, ‘40s: All-American Ads
B Heimann, ‘50s: All-American Ads
V The Indian in the Cupboard

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Research and Assessment
B Bryant, Children’s Understanding of Television: Research on Attention and Comprehension
B Bryant, Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research
B Fisch, “G” is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street
B Worsnop, Assessing Media Work: Authentic Assessment in Media Education [CML 1007]

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Video Production
B Merbreier, Television: What’s Behind What You See
B Simkins, Increasing Student Learning through Multimedia Projects [CML 1451]
CD Effective Teaching with Classroom Videos (100% Educational Videos)
CK How to Make Your Movie: An Interactive Film School (Electronic Vision)
TG Creating History Documentaries: A Step-by-Step Guide to Video Projects in the Classroom (Escobar) [CML 1328]
TG Teaching TV Production in a Digital World (Kenny) [CML 1437]
TG Videography: Guide to Making Videos (Hitchcock)
TG Yo-TV Production Handbook: A Guide to Video by Students for Students (EVC) [CML 1226.003]

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Miscellaneous Curriculum Materials
B Designing for Science: Implications from Everyday, Classroom and Professional Settings
B Father Gander Nursery Rhymes
B Kreitler, United We Stand: Flying the American Flag
B McKnight-Tronta, The Good Citizen's Handbook: A Guide to Proper Behavior
B PTV, The Ready to Learn Serviceon Pbs: Station Handbook (Public Broadcasting Service)
B The Real Mother Goose Picture Word Rhymes
B Schlechty, Shaking Up the Schoolhouse: How to Support and Sustain Educational Innovation
B Scieszka, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
B Simkins, Increasing Student Learning through Multimedia Projects
B Tufte, Visual Explanations: Images and Quanitties, Evidence and Narrative
B Weatherford, Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
CK The Great Peace: The Gathering of Good Minds, Birth of the Iroquois
TG ESPN Sportsfigures: Teaching Math & Science [ESPN Series]
TG The Puzzle Place Caregivers Guide
TG Rethinking Columbus: Teaching about the 500th Anniversary of Columbus’s Arrival in America (Rethinking Schools)
TG The Six Nations Series: Grades 7-11
V 20th Century with Mike Wallace: The Perils of Whistleblowing (History Channel)
V 20th Century with Mike Wallace: War Against Tobacco (History Channel)
V 9.11 – Looking Back, Moving Forward (In the Mix)
V Trash thy Neighbor (Educational Video Center)
V Unequal Education: Failing Our Children (Youth Organizers Television)

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