"As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that a woman's primary value lay in her youth, beauty and sexuality--and not in her capacity to lead, making it difficult for women to obtain leadership positions and for girls to reach their full potential. The film accumulates startling facts and statistics that leave audiences shaken, armed with a new perspective"--Container.
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New York, NY : Virgil Films, 2012.
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1 videodisc (88 min.) :,sound, colour with black and white sequences ;,12 cm.
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HanakoGal
Jun 25, 2012
“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as a man to be thought of as half as good. Luckily that is not too difficult.”
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A true reflection of the crap women have to put up with from the media. Re: Unattainable standards of beauty, Suzy homemaker, etc. A production from Oprah at her usual high standard. Depending on your opinion on the status of women, you may or may not like the DVD.
Difficult as it may be to accept, nearly fifty years after the start of the modern women's movement, the media still bombards us with highly constricted and stereotyped images of women. It's still all about men = power, women = sex. A number of very intelligent people are featured discussing the media's objectification of women. Show this to your daughters!
Most of the women in power they showed as representatives of women were corrupt and evil politically. However a good documentary to show kids who are growing up with parents who encourage sexuality.
It did NOT tell me only what i already know. It is chock full of facts. I want to watch it again and again.
Loved it!!! It didn't show or teach me anything I didn't already know, but it put it all together in one movie which will be great to watch with my son and daughter!
Defines a problem, but without much real insight nor solution. "Aren't male values awful",.. rather than the raw truth that "sex SELLS" ...and what that portends in our consumer society. And the idea that more women CEOs on the Boards of media corporations will 'fix it'...?? I don't think so. We live in a ratings driven world.
A middle-age father of a 20-something daughter this film
stoked a feminist fire I'd near
lost hope of for her. Decades
of sampling from a collection
incl. works from 'second Sex'
'Sexual Politics',& 'Our Blood'
thru 'Backlash' &'War Against
Women' to 'Beauty Myth''Fire
With Fire' & 'Full Frontal Fem'
hadn't moved her from a 'what
use is feminism to me?' inertia.
'Miss Representation' changed
that. I saw real anger,disgust &
indignation on her lovely face -
and returning to Alice Walker's
opening line she nodded firmly
"I get it now."
Thank you to all these awesome women & girls (plus men & boys).
Too much name dropping at the beginning of the documentary (Oprah, Rosie, some B-list actress, etc).
I grew up with the second wave of feminism; there was nothing new for me in this film. It was unrelenting in the displays of all that is negative about media cover of women. I am less interested in looking at all the bad stuff. I am more interested in moving forward, and wanted to see more examples and ideas of how we can do that.