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Media and Society: Images of Women - DVD
Catalogue Number: NFB539906
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: John Spotton
Directors: David Adkin
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Documentary, Media Literacy, Women's Studies
Language: English
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1989
Running Time: 54:10
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Media and Society: Images of Women - DVD 
Catalogue Number: NFB539906
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: John Spotton
Directors: David Adkin
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Documentary, Media Literacy, Women's Studies
Language: English
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1989
Running Time: 54:10
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This production provokes questions about the relationship between media images and the way in which women see themselves and are defined by others. Specifically: female roles on television, advertising's obsession with a particular definition of beauty, the effects of rock videos and the influence of pornography. Includes excerpts from the NFB productions Careers and Cradles, Women at War, Service in the Sky, Attention: Women at Work, No Way! Not Me, Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography and Thin Dreams.