Paper Tiger Reads 21st Century Working Woman

A feminist comedy show examining representations of working women in mainstream media and the evolution of women’s place in the workforce over the past 50 years. Structured as a local news program starring two female anchors this show uses slapstick comedy, man-on-the-street interviews, live music, kitschy camera techniques, big hair-dos, and plenty of cribbed footage to examine a myriad of issues related to the contemporary working woman.   More info...

Amy Goodman Takes Aim at the Contract on America

This carnivalesque episode exposes the injustices of 1994 Contract With America, a document written by the US Republican Party detailing the actions the party promised to take if they became majority party in the United States House of Representatives. Join Paper Tiger Television and Amy Goodman --progressive broadcast journalist, columnist and author -- in our quest to decipher: what lies behind the Republicans’ Contract with America? What we find is more of a Contract ON America, one that details a programmatic assault on civil liberties and women's rights.   More info...

Twist Barbie: Lynn Spigel Dreams of a Plastic Feminism

Is your liberation measured in hair styles, dress variety and occupational persona? From inside Barbie's house, this USC professor and avid Barbie collector dreams of feminism and femininity, high art vs. "low culture," and Barbie gender-bending activism. Barbie is a multimillion-dollar business and this show looks at the many layers of marketing, collecting, displaying and discussing - all of course, with a twist.   More info...

Sisterhood™: Hyping the Female Market

This video takes an analytical and humorous stab at the plethora of "pro-feminist" advertising that followed the emergence of the “new woman” and the increasing presence of women in the workforce during the 1990s. Conventional television genres are appropriated to show how the language and sentiments of feminism have been exploited by the advertising of an industry which cares little for the rights of its own female workers.   More info...