Slim hopes : advertising & the obsession with thinness [digital video]

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.

Technical Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subject Term:

Advertising -- Psychological aspects.

Body image in women -- Psychological aspects.

Body image in women -- Social aspects.

Communication.

Eating disorders -- Social aspects.

Leanness -- Psychological aspects.

Leanness -- Social aspects.

Media representation.

Women in advertising.