Pop Culture
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Little Mermaid Singalong
Presented with Canadian Artist Matthew-Robin Nye, Paper Tiger presents The Little Mermaid Singalong, a half-hour variety program featuring solo performances by princesses, in-depth discussion about the feminist and queer readings of the film and its legacy, and of course, multi-lingual singalongs with both the original and updated lyrics. More info...
Reality Unreeled: The Really Real Unreal Reality of Real Reality TV
Is reality television real? Is this the real life or is it just fantasy? Paper Tiger created a show on reality television, to explore the social impacts and affective stereotypes of this explosive and exploitative genre that has taken TV networks by storm. The show features an interview with media critic, journalist and founder of Women in Media and News, Jennifer L. Pozner. Pozner explains the social, economic and cultural context of reality TV. More info...
2010 TRT: 28 minutes #334
Surveilling Surveillance
As of 2010, an average person in a democratic, industrialized country is under more surveillance than ever before. In this video, an attorney, a sociologist and an artist – each of whom have a unique relationship with surveillance – discuss what it means to live in a surveillance culture. This video is meant to provoke questions, start conversations and raise awareness.From government wiretapping to Facebook, GPS systems to credit card swipes, Google searches to nanny cams- how are you being watched? More info...
2010 TRT: 28 minutes #336
Infiltrating the Underground: The Corporatization of Radical Culture
This Paper Tiger Television production was created in collaboration with author and activist Anne Elizabeth Moore. The show takes a look at how corporations are chipping away at democracy and personal integrity by copying the style and techniques of alternative culture. The program examines how and why anti-corporate culture and independent media have been co-opted by corporate advertising and their profit-making agenda, examining instances where the government and big business collude to silence independent voices—and concerns for social justice. More info...
2008 TRT: 28 minutes #328
Love Me, Love My Avatar
This show addresses changing notions of love and romance in the face of the rampant technological innovations of the Internet era. Dominic Pettman, Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at the New School and our avatar host take a look at love in the digital era. Pettman discusses several manifestations of "Love 4.0" such as objectum sexuality, virtual girlfriends, and cyborg love, and explore the possible impacts of this new love on the future of the libidinal economy. Includes a clip from Donna Haraway Reads National Geographic and a PTTV eharmony spoof. More info...
2008 TRT: 28 minutes #329
Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger Television
The pioneering social justice, media advocacy, and creative productions made by Paper Tiger Television over the past 25 years have influenced generations of media artists and activists around the world. This documentary tells the story of how the collective has combined media art, media activism and media analysis to create a new kind of television and provide a true alternative to the mainstream. This jubilant mosaic of media myth-smashing archival footage features interviews with media scholars, media critics and over 20 current and past Tigers. More info...
2007 TRT: 46 minutes #323
Keep On Livin'
Le Tigre (Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and J.D. Samson) is a feminist electronic-punk band that has staged multi-media performance art within our live show. In collaboration with Le Tigre, Paper Tiger Television organized a group of G/B/L/TS/T/Q youth in New York to produce a three minute video for the song "Keep On Livin'" that will be projected during the live performances of the song. This visual layer will foreground conceptual and theoretical ideas that might otherwise be lost in the rock club settings where the band often perform. More info...
2002 TRT: 3 minutes #308
Mighty Morphin’ Censorship: Who’s Watching Children’s Television?
Are you worried about children's television? Do you oppose censorship, but wish that violent cartoons would disappear off your television screen? In this video, media historian Heather Hendershot looks at how and why adults have tried to censor children's TV. From within Pee-Wee¹s Playhouse and atop the Fisher-Price Playhouse, Hendershot explains how activists have succeeded in the past, how Reganomics affected children's TV, and what the V-chip may mean for the future of television. More info...
1997 TRT: 23 minutes #268
Narrowcasting: Technology and the Rise of the Christian Right
Sit back but don¹t relax as Paper Tiger TV takes a cruise to the land of the Christian Right, "the most powerful grassroots movement in America today." This video explores the Christian Right's use of a constellation of communication technologies: satellite networks, cable TV, video production and the internet to achieve their vision for the future, a dark void of democracy. Stealth campaigning, wedge issues, and "family values" are some of the black holes navigated in this program. More info...
1996 TRT: 28 minutes #265
Steve Klassen Watches Segregated TV
Steve Klassen takes a look at the civil rights movement's often-overlooked fight to secure racial justice on the TV screens of the South. Focusing on the landmark FCC case of WLBT-TV, which went from white supremacist control to black ownership, Klassen examines the African-American fight for access to media and its repercussions in today's technologically expanding media world. Steve Classen teaches communications at Cal State - San Bernardino. More info...
1995 TRT: 28 minutes #259