Biography
Loretta Alper has produced and/or co-directed several documentaries for the Media Education Foundation, including “No Logo: Brands, Globalization, Resistance” (2003); “Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom” (2003); “Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class” (2005), “War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” (2007); “The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s PR War in the United States” (2016), “Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse” (2017), “The Great White Hoax: Donald Trump and the Politics of Race & Class in America” (2017), “The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots” (2018), and “Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy” (2018). In addition, she heads up MEF’s media research team. Prior to joining MEF in 2000, she was a high school English teacher in Amherst, Mass., worked for a number of independent print and radio outlets, curated an independent film series, and was a 35-mm film projectionist.