Women in Film & TV

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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
Wolf, Naomi
Book
1990
Writer and Journalist Naomi Wolf calls the current all pervasive need for women to attain an intangible physical beauty ideal the "beauty myth". It is calculated to disenpower women and is a complex p...
Connexions: Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1982
Miss Representation
Newsom, Jennifer and Acquaro, Kimberlee
Film
2011
Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.

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ACTRA
The union representing Canada's 21,500 performers, writers and broadcast journalists. Concerned about free trade, cultural sovereignty, censorship, public broadcasting, copyright, Canadian film.

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Studio D's Imagined Community
From Development (1974) to Realignment (1986-1990)
Anderson, Elizabeth
1999
Published in In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, Kay Armitage et al., eds. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1999
Ugandan TV Personality Sacked After Her Nude Photos Appear Online
2015
On May 21 Anita Kyarimpa, popularly known as Anita Fabiola, the host of a reality dating TV show Be My Date on Nation Media's TV channel NTV Uganda, had nude photos leaked onto social media. Subsequen...