Tough Guise - Violence Media and the Crisis in Masculinity.avi

Jackson Katz - Tough Guise (1999) Many programs released over the past few years have offered self-evident observations about America's violence problem--especially the disturbing uptick in deadly school violence--but Media Education Foundation's Tough Guise, hosted by Jackson Katz, is the first title to make my relatively media savvy mental wheels turn. Pointing out that we evade the roots of the problem in the very terms we use to frame our discussions (almost without exception, newspaper and magazine articles about the rash of school shootings have referred to "kids killing kids" or "children killing children" rather than the more telling and 100% accurate "boys killing kids"), Katz also makes a compelling argument that the increasingly cartoonish image of ideal masculinity being created by the media doesn't bode well for a peaceable future. In 1962, G.I. Joe's biceps measured (to scale) a respectable 12.2 inches; by1998, the army boy toy's biceps more than doubled to 26.8 inches. Or take the growth of heroes and their guns: in the 1950s, the diminutive Bogart carried an inconspicuous firearm; in the 1990s, the hulking Arnold Schwarzenegger wielded guns almost as big as Bogart himself. Add in the phenomenonal success of no-holds-barred wrestling, the overwhelming popularity of violent videogames, and the less than sportsmanlike attitudes of many contemporary sports stars, and--Katz rightly points out--the concept of violent masculinity becomes not an aberration, but rather a cultural norm. Although I don't agree with Katz on every particular, his general arguments are very persuasive. Illustrated with movie clips and quotes from popular slasher films to inane Howard Stern comments, Tough Guise offers strong statistical and analytical evidence regarding the very real crisis arising from the widespread depiction of inaccurate and unhealthy stereotypes of male masculinity. Highly recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (R. Pitman) Quality: fair (VHS) Runtime: 54 minutes General #0 FileSize/String : 263 MiB Format/String : Audio Video Interleave OveralBitRate/String : 683 Kbps PlayTime/String : 53mn 53s Director : created.with.SUPER(C).v2006.19 Encoded_Application : MEncoder for SUPER(C) eRightSoft 2000-2006 http://www.eRightSoft.com/SUPER.html Video #0 Codec/String : XviD Codec/Info : XviD project BitRate/String : 574 Kbps Width : 352 Height : 480 AspectRatio/String : 0.733 FrameRate/String : 25 fps Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.136 Audio #0 Codec/String : MPEG1/2 L3 Codec/Info : MPEG1 or 2 Audio Layer 3 BitRate/String : 96 Kbps Channel(s)/String : 2 channels SamplingRate/String : 22 KHz CORRECTED ASPECT RATIO : 4/3 ================================================================================ Learn the true nature of the world, come visit our huge dedicated e-library and forums @ http://conspiracycentral.net:6969/index.html http://conspiracycentral.info/index.php ================================================================================

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mad_bunny (2006-11-27)

Red herrings....implausible causality....straw man
arguments....self-important, pseudo-intellectual blarney...all this, and more,
can be yours only for the cost of bandwidth.
Katz is one of those people who "Think so much they're stupid."
BTW...this is the short version of Katz's idiotic gender canon.

parity1 (2008-01-28)

Sounds like you need to let down your "Tough Guise" and stop being exactly what the film was talking about. (ie Good Will Hunting)

bobbokrull2006 (2008-05-04)

Thanks to uploader!

macw86 (2014-10-30)

Mad_bunny.... u mad bro?
Sounding like the exact kind of goofball this movie is aimed at. Glad you got the chance to watch it and hopefully your self conscience is smart enough to take some of this information in as opposed to your conscious mind which seems to be that of a bitter, insulted, and self-identifying troubled man.