Smashing the Myths of the Information Industry: A History of Paper Tiger Television

Paper Tiger's grassroots, myth-smashing approach to television making has resulted in many "smash hits" of media activism. Herb Schiller Celebration (1981-96, 30 mins): Includes excerpts from a number of the Herb Schiller Reads The New York Times tapes and from his tape on the industrialization of sports, Herb KO's the Corporate Sponsorship of Sports; his hit on Geraldo from Herb Schiller Reads Trash TV, and more. Ben H. Bagdikian Reads Bay Area Dailies: The Strange World of San Francisco Print (1985, 30 mins): Join Media Monopoly author Bagdikian as he navigates the obscure landscape of San Francisco journalism. Joan Does Dynasty (1985, 31 mins): Hampshire College professor and stand-up theorist Joan Braderman takes on power and desire in TV's campiest series. A classic in feminist media deconstruction, and a hilarious look at the materialistic eighties in the context of the ordinary working person's life. Donna Haraway Reads The National Geographic on Primates (1987, 29 mins): How does the "cultured" gorilla, i.e. Koko, come to represent universal man? Author and culture critic Haraway untangles the web of meanings, tracing "What gets to count as nature, for whom and when, and how much it costs to produce nature at a particular moment in history for a particular group of people."

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