Jeremy Earp

Writer, Director, Producer, Editor

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.

Known For

  • War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
    War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death2007
  • Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
    Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People2006
  • The Occupation of the American Mind
    The Occupation of the American Mind2016
  • Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood
    Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood2009
  • White Like Me
    White Like Me2013
  • Not Just a Game
    Not Just a Game2010
  • Blood and Oil
    Blood and Oil2008
  • The Purity Myth
    The Purity Myth2011
  • The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics from Nixon to Trump
    The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics from Nixon to Trump2020
  • Behind the Shield: The Power & Politics of the NFL
    Behind the Shield: The Power & Politics of the NFL2022
  • Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
    Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property2007

Filmography

2010
The Codes of Gender · as Script Coordinator