DVD, NTSC.

In English, with optional English subtitles.

Narrator, Sut Jhally.

Edited by Sut Jhally ; additional editing, Andrew Killoy ; music, Joe Bartone.

Update of Dreamworlds 2 (1995) & Dreamworlds (1991)

A look at how the narratives of music videos shape individual & cultural attitudes toward femininity, masculinity, sexuality and race.

"Dreamworlds 3, the latest in Sut Jhally's critically acclaimed Dreamworlds series, takes a clarifying look at the warped world of music video. Ranging across hundreds of images and stories from scores of music videos, Jhally uncovers a dangerous industry preoccupation with reactionary ideals of femininity and masculinity, and shows how these ideals have glamorized a deeply sexist worldview in the face of the women's movement and the fight for women's rights. In the end, Dreamworlds 3 challenges young people to think seriously about how forms of entertainment that might seem innocuous and inconsequential can be implicated in serious real-world problems like gender violence, misogyny, homophobia, and racism." -- Media Education Foundation website.

Opening -- Techniques of storytelling -- Constructing femininity -- The pornographic imagination -- Ways of looking -- Female artists : trapped in the pornographic gaze -- Masculinity and control.