Slim hopes
Subtitle: advertising and the obsession with thinness
By: written & presented by Jean Kilbourne ; a production of the Media Education Foundation
Contributors: Jhally, Sut; Media Education Foundation
Series: PSY 429 (NU course); PSY 430 (NU course)
Publisher: Media Education Foundation
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Northampton, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Body image in women; Social aspects; Psychological aspects; Leanness; Women in advertising; Advertising; Eating disorders; Self-esteem in women; Sex role in advertising
Other titles: Advertising and the obsession with thinness
Description: "Slim Hopes 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, the program 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."--Container.
Notes: Originally produced by the Media Education Foundation in 1995.

DVD release of the 1995 videocassette production.

Executive producer, director, editor, Sut Jhally ; director of photography, Charles Pappert ; research, Heather Odom.

DVD.

Optional English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: Impossible beauty; title: The waif look; title: Constructed bodies; title: Food & sex; title: Food & control; title: The weight loss industry; title: Freeing imaginations.