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A film by Diane Israel, Carla Precht & Kathleen Man | A She-Art Production
How do our families influence our relationship with our own bodies? How do American pop culture's standards of beauty get inside our hearts and heads? In what ways can sport and the drive for fitness actually make us sick rather than healthy?
In this courageous, deeply personal new educational version of the film, Diane Israel examines American culture's unhealthy fixation on thinness, beauty, and physical perfection. Israel, a Boulder-based psychotherapist and former champion triathlete, talks candidly about her own struggle with eating disorders and obsessive exercising, fearlessly confronting her own painful past as she attempts to come to terms with American culture's unhealthy fixation on self-destructive ideals of beauty and competitiveness.
This educational version of the film lends context to Israel's personal odyssey with fascinating insights from athletes, body builders, fashion models, and inner-city teens, as well as prominent cultural critics and authors such as Eve Ensler, Paul Campos, and Naomi Wolf. In a special bonus feature, Israel talks in greater detail about her recovery.
***** Beauty Mark: Body Image & the Race for Perfection is an educational edition for use in the classroom of Carla Precht, Kathleen Man, and Diane Israel's film of the same title. *****
For additional resources and information, visit the film's official website: beautymarkmovie.com
Buy DVD at mediaed.org
A film by Diane Israel, Carla Precht & Kathleen Man | A She-Art Production
How do our families influence our relationship with our own bodies? How do American pop culture's standards of beauty get inside our hearts and heads? In what ways can sport and the drive for fitness actually make us sick rather than healthy?
In this courageous, deeply personal new educational version of the film, Diane Israel examines American culture's unhealthy fixation on thinness, beauty, and physical perfection. Israel, a Boulder-based psychotherapist and former champion triathlete, talks candidly about her own struggle with eating disorders and obsessive exercising, fearlessly confronting her own painful past as she attempts to come to terms with American culture's unhealthy fixation on self-destructive ideals of beauty and competitiveness.
This educational version of the film lends context to Israel's personal odyssey with fascinating insights from athletes, body builders, fashion models, and inner-city teens, as well as prominent cultural critics and authors such as Eve Ensler, Paul Campos, and Naomi Wolf. In a special bonus feature, Israel talks in greater detail about her recovery.
***** Beauty Mark: Body Image & the Race for Perfection is an educational edition for use in the classroom of Carla Precht, Kathleen Man, and Diane Israel's film of the same title. *****
For additional resources and information, visit the film's official website: beautymarkmovie.com
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The New Great Game
The Decline of the West & the Struggle for Middle Eastern Oil
After 500 years of Western domination, the waterways of the Middle East are now being contested in unprecedented ways. Pirates are roaming sea lanes. Local powers are threatening chokepoints. And the people are rising up to bring their authoritarian rulers down. With no simple solutions for maintaining control of oil flows, the West is facing a crucial decision. Already weakened by extended military interventions, faltering economies, and strained global partnerships, the US and Europe must decide whether violent intervention or benevolent passivity is the best course of action.
This timely documentary charts these murky new waters and shows how the logic of empire is being tested by a rapidly changing Middle East. With fresh-from-the-ground footage and testimony from experts and actors in the region, the film zeroes in on how disparate events occurring on land in such places as Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Yemen, and at sea in the Gulf of Aden, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea, are all part of the same story a story about the slow dismantling of the old order, and the emergence of a new geopolitical game.")
