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Slim hopes : advertising and the obsession with thinness / written and presented by Jean Kilbourne.
LIBRA DVD 001 041
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in advertising.
- Advertising--Psychological aspects.
- Advertising.
- Leanness--Social aspects.
- Leanness.
- Leanness--Psychological aspects.
- Body image--Social aspects.
- Body image.
- Body image--Psychological aspects.
- Eating disorders--Social aspects.
- Eating disorders.
- Self-esteem in women--United States.
- Self-esteem in women.
- United States.
- Sex role in advertising.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Advertising and the obsession with thinness
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2002]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Explores the manner in which women are portrayed by advertising with the focus on thinness. Discusses the impact this portrayal has on the self images of women and girls.
- Contents:
- Impossible beauty
- The waif look
- Constructed bodies
- Food & sex
- Food & control
- The weight loss industry
- Freeing imaginations.
- Credits:
- Executive producer, director, editor, Sut Jhally ; director of photography, Charles Pappert ; research, Heather Odom.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 51730535
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