Jeremy Earp

Jeremy Earp

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Biography

Jeremy Earp is the production director of the Media Education Foundation (MEF). He has directed, co-directed, produced, written and co-written over a dozen MEF films on the social, political and cultural impact of corporate media and political propaganda, including “Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire” (2004); “War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” (2007); “Not Just a Game: Power, Politics & American Sports” (2010); “The Purity Myth: The Virginity Movement’s War on Women” (2011); “Tough Guise 2: Violence, Manhood & American Culture” (2013), “The Great White Hoax: Donald Trump and the Politics of Race & Class in America” (2017); and “The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at Its Roots” (2018). Prior to joining MEF in 2002, Earp taught at New School University and Parsons School of Design in New York City, at the Art Institute of Boston and Northeastern University in Massachusetts, and worked as a news and sports reporter for a daily newspaper in the Greater Boston area.

Career

1999
2022
Behind the Shield: The Power & Politics of the NFL
2016
The Occupation of the American Mind
The Occupation of the American Mind as Director
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2011
The Purity Myth
The Purity Myth as Director
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2010
Not Just a Game
Not Just a Game as Director
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2008
Blood and Oil
Blood and Oil as Director, Writer
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2007
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood
2006
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People as Director, Writer
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