EMC: Abstract: Media & Society, Part 2: Images of Women*

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Media & Society, Part 2: Images of Women*

• 1992 ----- color ----- 54 min ----- vhs
• (Produced by the National Film Board of Canada) Raises questions about the visual representation of women in the mass media. 6a. Careers and Cradles (Excerpt): A film about the roles women were expected to play in post-war Canada provides a clear and amusing example of many of the key conventions which have typified the treatment of women in the media over the years.(2 min) 6b. Women at War (Excerpt): Created by women, primarily for women, this British archival excerpt demonstrates a significant difference in tone and treatment from Canadian war-time films.(4 min) 6c. Service in the Sky (Excerpt): This 1957 clip about training air stewardesses promotes careers for women while strongly touting marriage as the fitting and final end to a woman's formal work life.(4 min) 7. Attention: Women at Work! (Excerpt): A mid-80's portrait of a competent female hovercraft pilot which contrsts starkly both in its message and form with Canadian post-war films about women.(7 min) 8. Thin Dreams: Through discussion and improvised skits, a group of young women discuss the pressures they feel to live up to their society's standards of thinness.(21 min) 9. No Way! Not Me (Excerpt): A collage of current media images from magazines, commercials and rock videos is used to illustrate the words of Rosemary Brown as she speaks to a teenage audience about the root causes of feminine poverty.(2 min) 10. Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography (Excerpts): Interviews with people who earn their living in the porn trade, with consumers of pornography and with feminists who see pornography as an expression and a cause of sexual inequality and violence against women.(11 min) (Study guide available) (Donated by the Department of Canadian Studies) (Restricted to use by institutions of learning within the State of Washington only)
• Topics: (Advertising, Art, Audiovisual Education, Canadian Studies, Communications, Sociology, Television, Women Studies)

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