The Factory in the Living Room from Sut Jhally on Vimeo.
Dreamworlds 3 examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and encourages viewers to consider how these narratives shape individual and cultural attitudes about sexuality. Illustrated with hundreds of up-to-date images, Dreamworlds 3 offers a unique and powerful tool for understanding both the continuing influence of music videos and how pop culture more generally filters the identities of young men and women through a dangerously narrow set of myths about sexuality and gender. In doing so, it inspires viewers to reflect critically on images that they might otherwise take for granted.
This activity is worth 20 points.
Write a 1 page essay giving a summary and assessing the claims made in the video.
Questions to think about:
How are women portrayed in music videos?
What kind of impact do these images have on men, women, and the relationships that we have?
essay demonstrates that you watched the video
essay demonstrates the sociological imagination
it is well written
it is at least one page, double-spaced (at least 300 words)