27
Feb
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The media tells women how to look and what is considered beautiful, which contributes to their poor body image and dissatisfaction with themselves. Negative perception of one’s body is a major factor in the onset of eating disorders, an epidemic in American society. Through statistics and personal accounts, we have attempted to arm young women with the awareness of the detrimental effects the media is having on body image and how it attempts to define them. We show the images of women destroying different forms of media in order to embody the notion that they should reject the media’s prescriptions of unrealistic and unattainable beauty. Ultimately, through women’s statements of what makes them happy, we aim to make women feel empowered to define themselves and feel good about their own body.
Designed and produced by ADdictive Solutions, a group of students in PSYC 424, The Psychology of Communication & Persuasion, at the University of Maryland.
Duration : 0:1:50
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Tags: 424, beauty, body, disorders, eating, ideal, image, maryland, media, persuasion, psyc, thin, umd, women
11
Dec
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http://www.mediaed.org
A film by Diane Israel, Carla Precht & Kathleen Man | A She-Art Production
How do our families influence our relationship with our own bodies? How do American pop culture’s standards of beauty get inside our hearts and heads? In what ways can sport and the drive for fitness actually make us sick rather than healthy?
In this courageous, deeply personal new educational version of the film, Diane Israel examines American culture’s unhealthy fixation on thinness, beauty, and physical perfection. Israel, a Boulder-based psychotherapist and former champion triathlete, talks candidly about her own struggle with eating disorders and obsessive exercising, fearlessly confronting her own painful past as she attempts to come to terms with American culture’s unhealthy fixation on self-destructive ideals of beauty and competitiveness.
This educational version of the film lends context to Israel’s personal odyssey with fascinating insights from athletes, body builders, fashion models, and inner-city teens, as well as prominent cultural critics and authors such as Eve Ensler, Paul Campos, and Naomi Wolf. In a special bonus feature, Israel talks in greater detail about her recovery.
***** Beauty Mark: Body Image & the Race for Perfection is an educational edition for use in the classroom of Carla Precht, Kathleen Man, and Diane Israel’s film of the same title. *****
For additional resources and information, visit the film’s official website: http://www.beautymarkmovie.com
Duration : 0:1:44
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Tags: anorexia, athletes, beauty, body, bulimia, diane, disorders, eating, ensler, eve, exercise, Gender, image, israel, jhally, mark, media, MEF, monologues, myth, naomi, steroids, sut, vagina, wolf