Slim hopes : advertising & the obsession with thinness

Slim hopes Advertising & the obsession with thinness

Streaming video - 2014

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.

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Subjects
Advertising > Psychological aspects.
Body image in women > Psychological aspects.
Body image in women > Social aspects.
Communication.
Eating disorders > Social aspects.
Leanness > Psychological aspects.
Leanness > Social aspects.
Media representation.
Women in advertising.
Women's studies.
Documentary films.
Genres
Documentary films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming 2014.
Language
English
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm)
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm) (-)
Other Authors
Tom Gardner (-), Sut Jhally, Jean Kilbourne, Shannon Monahan, Heather Odom, Charles Pappert, Sanjay Talreja
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, 30 min.)
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Audience
Grade 9+
Higher education.
Production Credits
Executive producer, director, editor, Sut Jhally ; director of photography, Charles Pappert ; research, Heather Odom.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).

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