Sut Jhally believes the left faces two basic tasks: “The first is to understand and analyze the world better than anyone else,” Jhally says, noting the influence of cultural theorist Stuart Hall. “And the second—and this is what the left has so often failed to do—is to translate that work to the world at large.” Few have accomplished both tasks with… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesHaving done a master’s degree project—a 50 page critical essay—on one of the MEF’s videos, I have some opinions on the MEF. I must say that although I admire much of their work, I think that a good deal of it is tainted by some of the same problems the MEF is trying to expose.
For example, “Tough Guise”, a media literacy video exposing the problems with media images of masculinity, foolishly blames the “crises of masculinity” on a partisan political agenda involving, uhm, rich, white, male republicans.
I don’t think that this point of view is totally without merit; however, the crude, simplistic, and one-sided way in which this thesis is presented smacks of propaganda rather than critical inquiry.
Furthermore, the notion of the “social construction of masculinity” that this video advocates misunderstands and misapplies the critical theory it is rooted in. The bastardized lacanianism which has been au courant in American “cultural studies” is on display here, and it isn’t very compelling.
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