After viewing this film, please discuss the following questions and write a one page reflection. (Minimum 250 words)

1. To what extent do you think that music videos and mainstream commercial media in general, have influenced your knowledge of what it means to be a man and a woman?

2. How much influence do you think commercial pop culture has on what young people where you are from consider “conventional” or “normal” male/female behavior?

3. Do you think that the dominance of the “commercial heterosexual pornographic imagination” as it is termed in this documentary, can be an obstacle to gaining true knowledge about people of the opposite sex? Could it be an impediment to forming healthy relationships (sexual or not)? Could it contribute to violence against women?

4. Is it ethical for artists to create art that reinforces unhealthy stereotypes about men and women? Do artists have the ethical responsibility to create positive images of men and women? Is it the role of the artists to reflect the political and economic realities of their culture or do they also to have a responsibility to transform them?

5. Since art often appeals much more strongly to Emotion than to Reason as a way of knowing, does art pose a danger to society? Should there be strict controls on art?

6. Are music videos works of art or only works of consumer culture with about the same status as pizza or Kleenex? (Things to be bought, consumed and thrown away.) Are there exceptions? Can you give examples of music videos you believe are works of art that will be cherished by future generations?

7. Does Dreamworlds 3 take music videos too seriously?