BODY TYPED: August 2009

BODY TYPED Film Clips:

WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES	THE GUARANTEE	34x25x36

Winner: Sundance Film Festival - Short Subject Jury Award	Winner: Newport International Film Festival - Best Short Film	National PBS Broadcast on POV

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While shopping for a meal she was cooking for filmmakers including Spike Lee -- at the NYC farmer's market, Top Chef Carla Hall -- chimes in about body types.

What do you have to say? Send us a link to a video response and we'll post it.
--Jesse

DVD INFO

WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES:

Key Areas: Body Image, Media Literacy, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

SPECIAL FEATURES

The New DVD has both a censored (beeped) version and non-censored.
*Free STUDY GUIDE -- Download under "Study Resources" on left hand side of this page

Appropriate for:
High School•College/University

12 minutes • DVD

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Quotes:
"Revealing, sensitive, and yes, funny, WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES is a wonderful deconstruction of the construction of desire. I strongly recommend it as a teaching tool for academic as well as community environments."
–Stephen Duncombe, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies
New York University

"Epstein's quirky, quietly radical film shows consciousnesses being raised right on camera, as Dee Dee learns that "my man had a lot of wet dreams, to a lot of false images". A riveting examination of how retouching has enforced an utterly unrealizable standard of female beauty, even at street level."
Kate Stables
THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER

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THE GUARANTEE

The Guarantee uses illustration and humor to start serious discussions about body image, cultural identity, and often-dangerous pursuits of physical perfection.

Appropriate for:
Elementary School•Middle School•High School•College/University

11 minutes • DVD

Quotes:

"...the ending is both upbeat and unexpected in this engaging and innovative short."
3 Stars
Randy Pitman, Publisher/Editor
Video Librarian

"Addressing the illusion of perfect bodies and flawless faces is necessary. Eating disorders, unnecessary surgeries, and mental distress, are all part of the "looks above all" society"
Stewart Landers, JD, MCP
Associate Editor, American Journal of Public Health

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Student Review:

"I know that I have struggled immensely with body image issues that arose out of internal struggles but have only been escalated by figures in the media. Yet, if there is education that figures in magazines are not real, maybe another nine-year-old girl will be spared years of shame and embarrassment for not resembling the perfected bodies in magazines. I really admire Jesse Epstein for committing her work to bringing to front a prominent cultural issue."

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BODY TYPED Film Clips:

Monday, August 31, 2009

Glamour's Average-Sized Model Gets Big Reaction - Blogs.com

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Activists weigh in on ways to use the film

Top Chef Carla Hall on being flat-chested

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

34x25x36 on PBS Site