Presentation explores media, violence and masculinity

The multimedia presentation, “Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity” is coming to Emporia State University Monday, March 10. The presentation by Jackson Katz will take place at 7 p.m. in the Colonial Ballroom of ESU’s Memorial Union.

Katz is a former all-star football player.  He is the founder and director of MVP Strategies, an organization that provides gender violence prevention training to colleges, high schools, professional and college sports teams, community groups, corporations, and the U.S. military. He has lectured at hundreds of schools and colleges across the nation.

In his lecture, Katz uses clips from his film, Tough Guise, to illustrate how mainstream media images—from sports, television, Hollywood film, and music video—help to promote violent masculinity as a cultural norm. The intent of this lecture is to provide students, teachers, and anyone else with conceptual and practical tools for reading media images critically—especially those connected with masculinity and violence. Both negative and positive images are included in the presentation.

Katz’s lecture is sponsored by several ESU agencies, including Ethnic and Gender Studies, the Special Events Board, Student Health Services, Academic Enhancement Funds, ESU Athletics, Department of Social Sciences and the Boertman Fund.

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