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Killing Us Softly

Original title: Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women
Year: 1979
Running time: 30 min.
Country: United States
Director: Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich
Cast: Documentary, Self: Jean Kilbourne
Producer: Cambridge Documentary Films
Genre: Documentary | Feminism. Half-length Film
Synopsis: Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women is an American documentary by Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich, Patricia Stallone, and Joseph Vitagliano, based on a lecture by Jean Kilbourne and distributed by Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc. The documentary, first released in 1979 and since revised and updated four times, focuses on images of women in advertising, in particular on gender stereotypes, the effects of advertising on women's self-image, and the objectification of women's bodies.

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Killing Us Softly

1979

Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich