Movies: Paper Tiger Television

  • 1999
    Showdown in Seattle: Five Days That Shook the WTO

    Showdown in Seattle: Five Days That Shook the WTO (1999)

    Showdown in Seattle: Five Days That Shook the WTO

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    1999 documentary film, first broadcast in daily half-hour installments, about the November 1999 protests against the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle, Washington....

    Showdown in Seattle: Five Days That Shook the WTO
  • 1987
    Sock Ads: Judith Williamson Consumes Passionately in Southern California

    Sock Ads: Judith Williamson Consumes Passionately in Southern California (1987)

    Sock Ads: Judith Williamson Consumes Passionately in Southern California

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    Judith Williamson examines consumer culture in America, from the multiplication of products and their functions to capitalism’s colonization of the body. What is the meaning of freedom in modern day America? Is it the freedom to change the world or t...

    Sock Ads: Judith Williamson Consumes Passionately in Southern California
  • 1988
    Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M

    Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M (1988)

    Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M

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    Born to be Sold is Paper Tiger Television and Rosler's acerbic and witty interpretation of the notorious "Baby M" case, in which a natural — "surrogate" — mother and father of a baby fought each other for custody of the child. Rosler assumes various ...

    Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M
  • 2003
    Market This!: Queer Radicals Respond to Gay Assimilation

    Market This!: Queer Radicals Respond to Gay Assimilation (2003)

    Market This!: Queer Radicals Respond to Gay Assimilation

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    While global capitalism is a defining feature of our times, many engage in an anti-capitalist resistance. MARKET THIS! is a timely documentary that explores the desire for radical politics and culture in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Two-Spirited and T...

    Market This!: Queer Radicals Respond to Gay Assimilation
  • 1987
    Donna Haraway Reads

    Donna Haraway Reads "The National Geographic" on Primates (1987)

    Donna Haraway Reads "The National Geographic" on Primates

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    How does the "cultured" gorilla, i.e. Koko, come to represent universal man? Author and cultural critic Donna 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...

    Donna Haraway Reads
  • 1983
    Brian Winston Reads the TV News

    Brian Winston Reads the TV News (1983)

    Brian Winston Reads the TV News

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    This live show features the energetic analysis of television network news by Brian Winston. Winston looks at the news as a unique institution, governed by its own conventions and constraints....

    Brian Winston Reads the TV News
  • 1982
    Martha Rosler Reads

    Martha Rosler Reads "Vogue" (1982)

    Martha Rosler Reads "Vogue"

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    In this live performance for Paper Tiger Television's public-access cable program in New York, Rosler deconstructs the messages in Vogue and its advertising. Rosler looks at the institutional slants of the magazine industry and the fashion industry's...

    Martha Rosler Reads