The illusionists A film about the globalization of beauty

Streaming video - 2015

The Illusionists examines how global advertising firms, mass media conglomerates, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic surgery industries are changing the way people around the world define beauty and see themselves. Taking us from Harvard to the halls of the Louvre Museum, from a cosmetic surgeońђةs office in Beirut to the heart of Tokyóђةs Electric Town, the film explores how these industries saturate our lives with narrow, Westernized, consumer-driven images of beauty that show little to no respect for biological realities or cultural differences. Features Jean Kilbourne, Susie Orbach, Laura Mulvey, Gail Dines, Susan Linn, and other prominent sociologists, politicians, magazine editors, scientists, artists, and activists in Nort...h America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

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Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming 2015.
Language
English
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm)
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm) (-)
Other Authors
Elena Rossini (-), Jean Kilbourne
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Physical Description
1 streaming video (54 min.)
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Audience
Grade 9+
Production Credits
Producer, Director and Writer, Elena Rossini ; Executive Producer, Erika Franchini ; Original Music, Pierre-Marie Maulini ; Music Executive Producer, Olivier Linglet ; Editing and Motion Graphics, Elena Rossini ; Main Supervising Editor, Laura Minnear ; Consulting Editor, Louis Goldschmidt ; Sound Design and Mix, Ludovic Jokiel (AOC Production) ; Assistant Sound Design, Maxime Singer (AOC Production) ; Associate Producers, Erika Franchini and Garrett Zevgetis ; Narrator, Peter Coyote; Additional Writing, Laura Miner ; DP/Camera Operator, Elena Rossini ; Artistic Collaborators, Erika Franchini and Olivier Ducray.
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