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Released
1987 · FILM

Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women

Runtime
32 min
Documentary

Synopsis

This follow-up to Jean Kilbourne's award-winning 1979 documentary, *Killing Us Softly*, further examines the harmful effects of stereotypical and sexist imagery in advertising. In the film, Kilbourne delivers a lecture in which she uses a slide projector to display still images of women, men, children, and violent crime. Focusing on the dehumanization of women through television's emphasis on body image, she explains how American society is conditioned to view women primarily as sex objects.

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