Beautiful piggies / produced and directed by Barbara Bader.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Bader, Barbara.

Series:

Filmakers library online.

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bader, Barbara.

Compulsive eaters--Biography.

Compulsive eaters.

Eating disorders.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (29 min.).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2001.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This revealing self portrait of an overeater will strike a chord with most Americans who are concerned with weight and body image. It follows Barbara, the video maker, from seeming to be an attractive, cheerful young child through her metamorphosis into a five foot tall, one hundred and seventy-five pound conflicted woman. Mixing old photos and reminiscences of family members, the film creates an amusing vision of the survival of a compulsive eater and the trials of family members who love and live with her. Who are these family members who speculate on where Barbara went astray? A well -groomed mother who laments Barbara s inability to dress with chic. A fat father who gives the geneaology of his family's portliness. A loving husband who admires her beautiful eyes if not her shape. And then there s Barbara herself who describes the compulsion and shame of binging. She may be looking for the comfort food of her youth. She may be avoiding her sexuality. She may be wanting to "drop out." Beautiful Piggies is not a clinical study of an eating disorder. But no one who sees it will ever blame a fat person for being that way.

Notes:

Originally released as DVD.

Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).

Bronze Apple, National Educational Film & Video Festival, 1994

Honorable Mention, Atlanta Film & Video Festival, 1994

OCLC:

747798171