Review by Morning.star
GREAT analysis ... an accessible talk with well-chosen accompanying ads. I especially appreciated what she had to say about how ubiquitous pornography and violence have become.
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Tell us what you thought about Killing us softly 4
GREAT analysis ... an accessible talk with well-chosen accompanying ads. I especially appreciated what she had to say about how ubiquitous pornography and violence have become.
Title Statement | Killing us softly 4: advertising's image of women / [DVD] : a Media Education Foundation production ; directed by Sut Jhally. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Killing us softly four Advertising's image of women |
Additional Contributors | Jhally, Sut |
Kilbourne, Jean | |
Publication | Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation, c2010. |
Extent of Item | 1 videodisc (45 min.) |
ISBN | 1932869441 9781932869446 |
Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 897952001311 |
General Notes | Sequel to: Killing us softly (c1979), Still killing us softly (c1987), and Killing us softly 3 (2000). "Attention: this program contains nudity and sexual themes." |
Production Credits | Camera, David Rabinovitz ; editing, Sut Jhally and Andrew Killoy. |
Performance Credits | Featuring Jean Kilbourne. |
Languages | Soundtrack in English, with optional English subtitles. |
System Details | DVD; NTSC; Dolby Digital stereo.; aspect ratio 16:9. |
Contents | Introduction -- Ads everywhere -- A constructed beauty -- Objectification -- Judged by looks alone -- Thinness -- Dieting -- Eating & morality -- Global impact -- Infantilization & powerlessness -- Advertising & sex -- Experienced virgins -- Consumerism & sexualizing products -- Masculinity -- Violence -- What to do? |
Summary | "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, perfection, and sexuality. By bringing Kilbourne's groundbreaking analysis up to date, Killing us softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence"--Container. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Women in advertising |
Sex in advertising | |
Body image in women | |
Sex role | |
Sexism | |
Advertising--Psychological aspects | |
By Genre | Filmed lectures |
Documentary films | |
Nonfiction films | |
Film sequels |