Consuming Hunger is a three-part videotape which examines the western media's treatment of hunger-the way the media defines and discusses the issue, and how its portrayal shapes the public's conception. Videomaker Ilan Ziv intermixes discussions with news reporters and producers, academics, and organizers of Live Aid and Hands Across America with clips from the news, commercials and tv movies in a fascinating exposé: it is not "hunger" which is presented in the media, but an image of hunger. It is an image produced to be consumed-circulating more in an economic than informational exchange. Part one, "Getting the Story," examines the criteria by which the 1984 Ethiopian famine became "newsworthy". Part two, "Shaping the Image," focuses on the Live Aid show, and how it substituted entertainment-celebrities promising to end hunger with a rock show-for analysis of the causes and effects of the Ethiopian famine. The final segment, "Sharing the Feeling," shows how the media reduced the issues of hunger and the homeless in the U.S. to a mega-event, Hands Across America. -Kathy Geritz