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Download full textCouch, Richard – 1997
This paper reviews "Slim Hopes: Advertising & The Obsession with Thinness," a 30-minute video produced by the University of Massachusetts' Media Education Foundation, which discusses America's compulsion with thinness. Although the format of the video is the traditional "talking head," over 120 print and television…
Descriptors: Advertising, Audience Response, Body Weight, Consumer Education
