Slim hopes : advertising & the obsession with thinness
(2014, original release: 1995)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

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DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 video file, 30 min.)

ISBN/ISSN
1041572
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Executive producer, director, editor, Sut Jhally ; director of photography, Charles Pappert ; research, Heather Odom

Jean Kilbourne's popular video Slim Hopes offers a comprehensive analysis of advertising's depiction of bodies and food, and the devastating effect these images can have on girl's and women's health. Using numerous ads, Kilbourne shows how the prevalence of extremely thin models, in combination with advertising that encourages emotional eating, charts a clear path to disordered attitudes toward food and the body

Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 1995

Grade 9+

Higher education

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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