Tivo alert! Author, media critic and eating disorder documentary superstar Jean Kilbourne will be on NBC's the Today show tomorrow morning discussing her new book "So Sexy, So Soon" (excerpt available here) and providing deep insight into why magazines are making us hate ourselves.
I kid, but the Media Education Foundation (the documentary production/distribution house for many of Kilbourne's film) gave me my first job out of college. It was an invaluable experience not just from a production and business standpoint but having access to their enormous catalog gave me a much more profound understanding for the impact documentary film can have.
Jean Kilbourne especially has a gift for synthesizing complicated information that's been stigmatized as frivolous and presenting it in a way that is simple and meaningful. Below is a trailer for the third incarnation of her popular series, Killing Us Softly:
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