Slim hopes : advertising & the obsession with thinness / aproduction of the Media Education Foundation ; executive producer, director, Sut Jhally ; written and presented by Jean Kilbourne
Impossible beauty -- The waif look -- Constructed bodies -- Food & sex -- Food & control -- The weight loss industry -- Freeing imaginations
Summary
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
Credits
Executive producer, director, editor, Sut Jhally ; director of photography, Charles Pappert ; research, Heather Odom
Performer
Presented by Jean Kilbourne
Event
Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 1995
