Consuming hunger [videorecording] / Maryknoll World, Tamouz co-production in association with Channel Four ; produced by Michael Lavery, Freke Vuijst, and Ilan Ziv ; director, Ilan Ziv.

Analyzes how television images of starvation in Ethiopia became reality to viewers in the l980s. Part 1 asks why it took so long for Western television to cover the famine. Part 2 examines what was done with the famine story including use of celebrities, for-profit commercials, and Live Aid fundra...

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Corporate Authors:	Maryknoll World Productions, Tamouz Media, Channel Four (Great Britain), Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Other Authors:	Ziv, Ilan (Producer, Director), Lavery, Mike (Producer), Vuijst, Freke (Producer), Wilson, Trey (Narrator)
Other title:	ITS Video Library.
Format:	Video VHS
Language:	English
Published:	Maryknoll, NY : Maryknoll World Video Library, ©1987.
Subjects:	Famines > Ethiopia. Famines in mass media. Television in propaganda. Television > Moral and ethical aspects. Television broadcasting > Social aspects. Hunger > United States. Food relief > United States. Live Aid (Fund raising enterprise) Hands Across America (Fund raising enterprise)