Slim Hopes: Advertising&the Obsession With Thinness


http://... 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 anduniversities. 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.







Channel: News
Uploaded: October 4, 2006 at 3:45 pm
Author: ChallengingMedia

Length: 00:05:10
Rating: 4.73
Views: 163507

Tags: Education Disorders MEF Sut Women Jean Media Mass Critical Kilbourne Eating Jhally Literacy Educational Health Industry

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Video Comments:
totallybarefoot (September 17, 2008 at 10:01 pm)
Isn't it likely that you have issues deeper than wanting to be like the girls in magazines? I'm not saying magazines don't hurt. I remember hours spent trying to get airbrushed makeup and hair looks. But wanting to be a light feather lifted in the wind is NOT a visual, but a physical metaphor. Possibly you want to FEEL differently, not LOOK differently.
madcolleran (September 6, 2008 at 6:30 am)
I'd be dead if it weren't for you efforts. Thank you, with all of my heart.
wanderingivie (September 5, 2008 at 4:24 pm)
Fantastic video! Thanks for uploading this.

What's the song and performer at the beginning of this clip?
MissSnoopi (August 31, 2008 at 2:09 am)
whatever happened to the good old days where models could be size 12? Now days you have to have your rib cages sticking through to be considered "attractive".