Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women

Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women

32 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1987

This follow-up to Jean Kilbourne's award-winning 1979 documentary, KILLING US SOFTLY, further probes the harmful effects of stereotypical and sexist images in advertising. Kilbourne conducts a lecture within the film, displaying still images of women, men, children, and violent crime via a slide projector. By emphasizing the dehumanization of women by television's body-image obsession, she teaches viewers how America is taught to categorize women primarily as sex objects.

Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women

32 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1987

Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women
This follow-up to Jean Kilbourne's award-winning 1979 documentary, KILLING US SOFTLY, further probes the harmful effects of stereotypical and sexist images in advertising. Kilbourne conducts a lecture within the film, displaying still images of women, men, children, and violent crime via a slide projector. By emphasizing the dehumanization of women by television's body-image obsession, she teaches viewers how America is taught to categorize women primarily as sex objects.
Producers Cambridge Documentary Films
Original title Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women
Directors Margaret Lazarus
Writers

Cast

Jean Kilbourne

as Herself