Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video

Dreamworlds 3, the highly anticipated update of Sut Jhally's groundbreaking Dreamworlds 2 (1995), 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.

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• Media
• Education
• Literacy
• Critical
• Mass
• Industry
• Desire
• Sex
• Power
• Music
• Videos
• Marketing
• feminism
• media

[nikkikgu]

I have to say, drunk women are not the culprits. Rapists are. Women shouldn't have to change their lifestyles just because some men are so uneducated and disgusting that they can't stop thinking about sticking their penis' into anything feminine. Women should be able to drink just as much as men do, and men should incur harsher punishments for rape or sexual assault.

[nikkikgu]

Unlike dogs, men (supposedly) can control their impulses, follow lines of logic, understand repercussions, and have a sense of empathy.

And honestly, how would you react if women all of a sudden stopped living up to your expectations of sexiness/attractiveness? It's funny because men impose these standards and then blame women for looking the way they do because they are supposedly inviting rape.

You are a moron.

[kcolwell24]

Shit like this terrifies me. No matter how conservatively I dress, how many precautions I take or weapons I carry, there are people out there perfectly willing to sexually assault me. What can any woman do when there is a horde of men ripping her clothes off? It was in broad daylight and in public, goes to show you that it can happen anywhere.

I don't know where we can start, but our culture needs to be redefined so that women are no longer seen as objects by the media and by so many people.

[BeardedClamMeister]

its one thing to spray the women with booze, but its another to smack them and rip off their clothes. Its not even arousing.

[Zandrajbos]

@nikkikgu RIGHT!!!! totally agree.

[argophontes]

@Otana I hope people think it's disgusting, because it is. It also happens to be true.

[Otana]

@argophontes Or perhaps we are reading and still disagreeing with the disgusting sentiment you're putting forth?

[polomania909]

I dont disagree with whatever is said on the video..

the whole point is how the music industry is portraying women & hw its actually happening in real life. Such a shame

You think the women in the music videos enjoy what they are doing? Im sure they are doing it for the money and regretting it, or maybe the soul-less ones are actually loving it. I dont know..but it is then happening in the real world.. it was disgusting to see men rip off the girls clothes in broad daylight infront of so many!

[argophontes]

The fact that this was voted down so much just proves that people aren't reading past the first sentence. I never in any way, shape, or form tried to justify what happened here. I said that these men are part of a culture that tolerates this kind of crap, and that a woman who puts herself in that situation shouldn't be shocked by it. At no point did I blame her for anything.

[argophontes]

@carriecage I never said there was an excuse. What I said is that the men who do this don't hide the fact that they will. If you put yourself in a cage with a lion that's already killed a person before, why would you expect to not be attacked?

[carriecage]

@argophontes I don't care what a women is wearing whether it be a low cut shirt or a skirt, there is no excuse for ripping off her clothes.

[cjschu97]

then don't turn on your fucking tv