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Title:

Slim hopes [videorecording] : advertising and the obsession with thinness / a production of the Media Education Foundation.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

The Foundation,

Copyright Date:

c1995

Description:

1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. with b&w ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Eating Disorders--psychology.--videocassettes.
Eating disorders--Etiology.--videocassettes.
Self Concept--videocassettes.
Advertising--trends--videocassettes.
Body image--videocassettes.
Thinness--psychology--videocassettes.
Women in advertising
Advertising--Psychological aspects.
Leanness--Social aspects.
Leanness--Psychological aspects.
Body image--Social aspects.
Body image--Psychological aspects.
Eating disorders--Social aspects.
Self-esteem in women--United States.
Sex role in advertising.

Other Authors:

Kilbourne, Jean.
Jhally, Sut.
Media Education Foundation.

Contents:

Impossible beauty -- The waif look -- Constructed bodies -- Food & sex -- Food & control -- The weight loss industry -- Freeing imaginations.

Summary:

(Producer) Jean Kilbourne is the creator of the award winning film Still Killing Us Softly and a popular lecturer on college campuses. Using examples of over 120 ads from magazines and T.V., Slim Hopes offers a new way to think about demoralizing and life-threatening eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)38048814
(OCoLC)33364827

Locations:

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)