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Advertising - Psychological Aspects

Advertising & the end of the world [videorecording] / Media Education Foundation; writer & editor, Sut Jhally. Northhampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2002.
1 videodisc (40 min.), col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Lilly Library:  A-V DVD | DVD 1380
Summary:  Presents a compelling and accessible argument about consumerism and its impact on the earth’s future. Extensively illustrated with graphics and examples from commercial imagery.

Beyond killing us softly [videorecording] : the impact of media images on women and girls / produced and directed by Margaret Lazarus [and] Renner Wunderlich. Cambridge, MA :  Cambridge Documentary Films,2000.
1 videocassettee (34 min.)., col. ; 1/2 in.
Participants:  Commentary: Carol Gilligan, Catherine Steiner-Adair, Gail Dines, Gloria Steinem, Amy Richards, Valerie Batts.
Credits:  Editor, Renner Wunderlich
Lilly Library:  A-V Video cassette | VC 8969
Summary
:  A documentary about the fight against the toxic and degrading messages to women and girls that dominate the media. The film presents the leading authorities in the fields of psychology of women and girls, eating disorders, gender studies, violence against women, and media literacy -- and focuses their ideas on practical solutions and the best tactics for reclaiming our culture.

Consuming images [videocassette] / A presentation of WNET/New York and WETA/Washington. [S.l.] : PBS Video (distributor), c1989.
1 videocassette (58 min.), col. ; 1/2 in.
Credits:  Producer/director, Gail Pellett ; executive producer, Alvin H Perlmutter.
Lilly Library:  A-V Video cassette | VC 1761
Summary
:  Explores how television, posters, and all types of advertisements have created behavior patterns for daily decision making, and expectations. Discusses how visual media is used to affect behavior patterns and creates a reality of its own.
Notes:  Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Killing us softly 3 [videorecording] : advertising’s image of women / with Jean Kilbourne. Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2002.
1 videodisc (34 min.), col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Lilly Library:  A-V DVD | DVD 1088
Summary
:  Discusses the manner in which women continue to be portrayed by advertising and the effects this has on their images of themselves.

Persuasion, propaganda, and photography [videorecording]. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2002.
1 videodisc (27 min.), col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Lilly Library:  A-V DVD | DVD 2565
Summary
:  The program discusses the manipulative power of photography by illustrating how commercial photography has created an obsession with youth and physical perfection. Also covers exploiting interest in celebrities, sex, and violence. Demonstrates how photogenic people who know how to use the visual media can dominate the political scene.

Slim hopes [videorecording] : advertising and the obsession with thinness / written & presented by Jean Kilbourne ; a production of the Media Education Foundation. Northampton, Mass. : Media Education Foundation, c2002.
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Lilly Library:   A-V DVD | DVD 2668
Summary
:  "Slim Hopes offers an in-depth analysis of how female bodies are depicted in advertising images and the devastating effects of those images on women’s health. Addressing the relationship between these images and the obsession of girls and women with dieting and thinness, the program offers a new way to think about life-threatening eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, and a well-documented critical perspective on the social impact of advertising."
Contents: Impossible beauty -- The waif look -- Constructed bodies -- Food & sex -- Food & control -- The weight loss industry -- Freeing imaginations.

Still killing us softly: advertising’s image of women [videocassette] / a film by Jean Kilbourne and Cambridge Documentary Films ; producer & director, Margaret Lazarus. Cambridge, Mass. : Cambridge Documentary Films, c1987.
1 videocassette : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Participants:  Lecturer, Jean Kilbourne.
Credits:  Cinematographer & editor, Renner Wunderlich.
Ford Library:  Reserves
Lilly Library:  A-V Video cassette | VC 623
Lilly Library:   A-V Limited Circulation | VC 623
Summary
:  Discusses the manner in which women are portrayed by advertising and the effects this has on women and their images of themselves.

This is a recorded message [motion picture] = ceci est un message enregistré. National Film Board of Canada, 1973. 10 min.. color. 16 mm.
Credits:  Producer, Pierre Moretti; director, Jean Bédard; photographers, Jacques Avoine, Cameron Gaul, Raymond Dumas, Richard Moras.
Lilly Library:  A-V Motion picture | MP A37
Library Service Center:  MP A37
Summary
:  Cut-out color ads projected in fragmented, rapid succession represent the barrage of advertising that assails the individual almost from the time he enters the world and evinces the reality hidden behind the false images.

 

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