Slim Hopes

Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness

Duration: 30 min
ISBN: 1-893521-60-5
Date Produced: 1995
Subtitles: English

Filmmaker Info
Study Guide
Awards
Praise for the Film

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Slim Hopes
Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness

Jean Kilbourne's award-winning video offers an in-depth analysis of how female bodies are depicted in advertising images and the devastating effects of those images on women's health. Addressing the relationship between these images and the obsession of girls and women with dieting and thinness, Slim Hopes offers a new way to think about life-threatening eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, and a well-documented critical perspective on the social impact of advertising.

Slim Hopes is a lively and engaging program suitable for a wide range of audiences at high schools, colleges and universities. Using over 150 ads, it informs as it entertains, allowing viewers to build an analytic framework for considering the impact of advertising on women's health.

Sections: Impossible Beauty | Waifs & Thinnness | Constructed Bodies | Food & Sex | Food & Control | The Weight-Loss Industry | Freeing Imaginations

Jean Kilbourne

Jean Kilbourne is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on alcohol and tobacco advertising and the image of women in advertising. Her films, slide lectures and television appearances have been seen by millions of people throughout the world. She was named by The New York Times Magazine as one of the three most popular speakers on college campuses today.

Filmmaker Info

Executive Producer, Director, Editor: Sut Jhally
Director of Photography: Charles Pappert
Assistant Editor: Sanjay Talreja
Cameras: Charles Pappert, Scott Perry, Sut Jhally
Stills Shooting: Sanjay Talreja, Jeremy Smith, Patricia Mangan
Research: Heather Odom
Production Assistant: Shannon Monahan, Tom Gardner
Stage Manager: Stacy Rapp

Film Festivals

Awards

Certificate for Creative Excellence, U.S. International Film and Video Festival

Press Reviews

Praise for the Film

"Extremely important...her message is timely, persuasive, and thought provoking."
- Francie Berg, M.S. | Editor, Healthy Weight Journal

"Shocking and empowering! This video is must viewing. After viewing it, you will never look at advertising and women's bodies in the same way again."
- Christiane Northrup, M.D. | Author, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom

"Jean Kilbourne's work is pioneering and crucial to the dialogue of one of the most underexplored, yet most powerful, realms of American culture - advertising. We owe her a great debt."
- Susan Faludi | Author, Backlash and Stiffed

"Jean Kilbourne's work is profoundly important. She's one of those people who makes a difference in how we see the world."
- Arlie Hochschild | Director of the Center for Working Families | University of California, Berkeley

"Hearing Jean Kilbourne is a profound experience. Audiences leave her feeling she teaches them to see themselves and their world differently."
- Member | Italian Parliament

"Jean Kilbourne is a prophet calling out in the wilderness for fundamental change in the way we communicate publicly with one another."
- Adweek