Jean Kilbourne
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing us softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a range of new print and television advertisements to lay bare a stunning pattern of damaging gender stereotypes--images and messages that too often reinforce unrealistic, and unhealthy, perceptions of beauty,...
Publisher
Ro*co Films Educational
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"[E]xplores how mainstream media contributes to the under-representation of women in influential positions in America and challenges the media's limiting and often disparaging portrayals of women, which make it difficult for the average girl to see herself as powerful."--Container.