Inspiring. Thought-Provoking. Candid.
In 90-minutes, Camille Cooper takes audiences inside Hollywood – examining how and why the media continue to promote harmful social attitudes:

• Demonstrating how photo retouching, lighting and camera filters shape images
• Exposing media’s use of ‘formula” as a deliberate method of manipulation
• Illuminating culturally divisive effects resulting from use of fear and sex

What Price Beauty: the American Beauty Myth (pdf)

“We retouch every photograph of any girl over the age of fourteen.”
– Graphic Artist, Los Angeles

Mass media is the most influential educational medium that exists. By first grade, children have spent more time watching television than they will spend in the college classroom. By the time they reach adulthood, they have been bombarded by images that affect their judgment about each other, their abilities and their bodies.

Naked & Dead: the Media’s Glamorization of Sex and Violence (pdf)

Media violence: for every white male victim, there are 17 white female and 22 minority female victims.

We live in a media culture. It influences the way we think, the way we feel, and it shapes our attitudes about ourselves and each other. Girls and boys are conditioned at an early age about attitudes and cultural values toward sex and violence.