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.

Executive Producer, Director, & Editor Sut Jhally
Assistant Editor Sanjay Talreja
Copyright 1995

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

Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D., the award-winning creator of the Killing Us Softly film series, has twice been named Lecturer of the Year by the National Association of Campus Activities. She is a widely published writer and appears frequently on national interview programs. She has spent many years researching and compiling examples of media images and their effects on young people, especially women. Her book, Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising, was published in 1999. The paperback version, Can't Buy My Love, is available from Simon and Schuster, New York.

www.jeankilbourne.com

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For a study of the positive impact on self-esteem and body image for girls, see "A Media Literacy Program for High School Females," Irving, DuPenn, Berel, in Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention (v.6, n.2, 1998).