Jeremy Earp

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.

Directed

1. War Made Easy (2007) — Director
2. Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2007) — Director
3. Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006) — Director
4. Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004) — Director
5. The Occupation of the American Mind (2016) — Director
6. Blood and Oil (2008) — Director
7. Not Just a Game (2010) — Director
8. The Purity Myth (2011) — Director
9. The Great White Hoax — Director
10. The Mean World Syndrome (2010) — Director
11. Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL (2022) — Director
12. Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse (2018) — Director
13. Digital Disconnect (2018) — Director
14. The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots (2018) — Director