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CMMC offers full text and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, discourse, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication theory, language, logic, organizational communication and other closely related fields of study.

Library Materials

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Miss Representation (2012). Discusses ways in which the media openly degrades women. Features commentary from many influential women in media and politics. Call number: 302.23082 M678 DVD (Truax)

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The Billionaires' Tea Party: How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolution (2011). This film offers a look at how corporate elites are exploiting the anxieties of ordinary Americans. 322.3 B598 DVD (Truax)

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Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011). This documentary chronicles the transformation of The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk, as the Internet redefines the media industry by surpassing print as the main source of news. 071.3 P133 DVD (Truax)

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Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women (2010). Killing Us Softly 4 urges a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence. 659.1042 K486 DVD (Truax)

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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (2002). Focuses on Chomsky's analysis of the hidden use of ideological manipulation in democratic societies. 410.92 M294 DVD (Truax)

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Generation M: Misogyny in Media and Culture (2008). In this important new documentary, Thomas Keith, Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, looks specifically at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and hateful attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the very heart of our popular culture. 305.4 G326 DVD (Truax)