Discussion – Price of Pleasure
Been a long time fan of the Media Education Foundation. It turns out we can watch their films free if we don’t mind preview-grade low-res. Full length versions are thus available at the MEF website here.
Here is a full-length preview of The Price of Pleasure.
What are your reactions to the film?
Do you take anything new away from the film?
How might you use this film?
Susan/catlady:
Anita Sarkeesian takes on the recent GQ photo spread of three actors from Glee:
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2010/11/glee-gq-and-the-sexualization-of-young-girls/
I watched The Price of Pleasure this morning, and have been struggling all day with memories and images from my own life. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be a young girl today, when the images are so much more pervasive and ever more violent.
12 November 2010, 2:44 amSusan/catlady:
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2010/11/glee-gq-and-the-sexualization-of-young-girls/
better link, I hope
12 November 2010, 2:44 amSusan/catlady:
Vogue’s kiddy couture, ugh.
http://tomandlorenzo2.blogspot.com/2011/01/vogue-paris-cadeaux.html
“Is this supposed to be some sort of cheeky commentary on the youth-obsessed fashion industry? A little nod and wink to the reader? We just don’t get it. It’s gross and it never should have seen the light of day. What’s perhaps most galling of all is that the industry and industry commenters haven’t denounced this with any real force. Oh, sure. There’s been some hand-wringing over this, but no real questions have been asked. It seems that to a lot of people, this editorial was simply a momentary lack of taste rather than the natural culmination of decades of fetishizing youth to the masses.”
Cadeaux–presents for girls or girls as presents?
7 January 2011, 1:37 pm