Person
Jeremy Earp
Directing
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.
Known for
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Writer

Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Editor

The Occupation of the American Mind
Producer
The Codes of Gender
Script Coordinator

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood
Director

The Purity Myth
Director

War Made Easy
Writer

Blood and Oil
Director

Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
Story Editor

Guyland
Producer
Filmography
- 2022Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFLEditor
- 2020The Man CardExecutive Producer
- 2018The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its RootsDirector
- 2018Digital DisconnectDirector
- 2018Advertising at the Edge of the ApocalypseDirector
- 2016The Occupation of the American MindProducer
- 2015GuylandProducer
- 2013White Like MeWriter
- 2012Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual RelationshipsStory Editor
- 2011The Purity MythDirector
- 2010The Codes of GenderScript Coordinator
- 2010The Mean World SyndromeDirector
- 2010Not Just a GameDirector
- 2008Blood and OilDirector
- 2007Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of ChildhoodDirector
- 2007War Made EasyWriter
- 2007Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual PropertyExecutive Producer
- 2006Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a PeopleProducer
- 2006Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing DrugsWriter
- 2004Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American EmpireDirector
- 1999Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in MasculinityWriter
- —The Great White HoaxDirector
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