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Advertising Missionaries - Follows the mission of one theater company to bring the consumer revolution to the people of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
B
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Branding Illness - A documentary exposé of how pharmaceutical companies create demand for the drugs at their disposal, and buy the science they need to prove their effectiveness.
C
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CultureJam - A film about the movement called Culture Jamming. Pranksters and subversive artists are causing a bit of brand damage to corporate mindshare...
D
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The Democratic Revolutionary Handbook - A how-to manual to the recent democratic (but definitely not spontaneous) revolutions in Georgia, Serbia, and the Ukraine.
E
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Electric Signs - Explores the effects of new screen-based advertising sign systems on urban environments and public space. (new March, 2013)
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Food Design - A look inside the secret chambers where designers and scientists are defining your favorite mouthful of tomorrow.
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Futures Market - A visual essay on cultural memory, urban space, and real estate speculation.
H
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Hamburger: Macprofit - A provocative expose of the machinations that drive the fast food industry.
K
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Keeping It Real - A philosophical but often comic investigation of the desire for truly "authentic" experiences, and how the new "experience economy" packages and sells them.
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Knock Off - Juxtaposes the deified position logos occupy in our consumer-culture, with the lives of sweatshop workers who cannot afford the items they create.
L
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Let Them Eat Cake - Against the backdrop of the "Texas Cupcake Controversy," this humorous documentary takes a close look at the processed food industry and at the ways that junk food and beverages are marketed to children.
M
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Made Over in America - In a culture where bodies seem customizable, how do we perceive body image, and how are desires for a better self influenced by reality television and the makeover industry?
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Media War in El Salvador - Analyzes the Madison Avenue style media barrage employed by rival parties during El Salvador's 1989 presidential campaign.
S
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Selling Sickness - Explores the unhealthy relationships between society, medical science and the pharmaceutical industry as it promotes not just drugs but also the latest diseases that go with them.
T
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Teeth - An amusing but informative look at the psychological, social and economic issues surrounding the modern American obsession with straight, white teeth.
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30 Second Democracy - Explores the disturbing relationship between political parties and the advertising industry during election campaigns.
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To Be Seen - A lively study of visual culture, and an exploration of an age-old urban cultural phenomenon, street art. What is art's role in the context of public space and urban culture?
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The Tube - Have the physiological effects of watching TV been kept secret for decades? A journalist penetrates the heart of the TV and advertising industries in Europe, Japan, and the U.S. to find out.
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