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30 minutes
Colleges and Universities
$250.00
High Schools and Non-Profits
$125.00
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Reviews and Comments
Award for Creative Excellence - 1996 International Film & Video Festival
"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
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Slim Hopes
Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness
Featuring Jean Kilbourne
(1995)
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In this section:
Summary
Logistical Information
Biographical Summary
Reviews and Comments
Screenings and Festivals
Articles
Summary:
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.
Logistical Information:
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
Biographical Summary:
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
Screenings and Festivals:
To be announced.
Articles:
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).
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