"Electronic Fables" are an example of the early work of Paik cn electronic manipulation of the image, before the famous synthesizer invensión Paik / Abe Video. This collection of work includes examples of germ appropriation of fragments of mass media, deconstruction and manipulation as political and cultural criticism.

The "I Like Ike" animated television commercial, produced by Roy Disney and Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon. (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.)

Edward Said talks about the context within which the book "Orientalism" was conceived, its main themes and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of "the Orient." Said argues that the Western (especially American) understanding of the Middle East as a place full of villains and terrorists ruled by Islamic fundamentalism produces a deeply distorted image of the diversity and complexity of millions of Arab peoples.

Can residents of East St. Louis save their town? Or has it become obsolete-a warning to all American cities facing de-industrialization?

This video begins with Rapunzel's fairy tale wedding. Selected clips from the children's animation depict her marriage falling apart. Newsreel footage of fashion models and sequences from a film about communication technology are linked to the witch. The implication is that the mass media casts a spell that disenchants viewers.