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The Famine Within

Item number (ISN):

209505

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1989-05/1990-05

Item number (ISN):

209505

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Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

KANDOR PRODUCTIONS LTD.

Accession:

1993-0102

Media:

Film

Original title:

The Famine Within

Part:

4 of 4

Production date:

1989-05/1990-05

Release date:

1990-09-20

Production company:

Original long version
Kandor Productions Ltd.

Production credit:

director/producer/scenario, Katherine Gilday; executive producer, Paul Jay; photography, Joan Hutton; Barry Stone; sound, Marc Chiasson; Mark Holden; Chaim Gilad; editing, Petra Vallier; music, Russell Walker; narrator, Rebecca Jenkins

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Kandor Productions Ltd.

Description:

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The contemporary obsession with body size and shape among North American women. Under the coercive powers of consumerism and the mass media, women have come to view their bodies as marketable objects and to judge them according to the unrealistic standards of the beauty ideal. Paradoxically, this anxious quest for "the perfect body" is going on precisely at the point where women face serious challenges of self-definition as they orientate themselves within the world of work outside the home. Using a strong and dramatic visual approach, the film explores the complex knot of causes that lies at the heart of this paradox. It consers the confusing and contradictory directives that young women are growing up with today - as embodied in the Superwoman ideal - and the way in which such role confusion is reflected in the symbolic associations of body size. Combining the direct testimony of many women who have suffered from the body obsession - dancers, mothers, career women, athletes, models, bulimics, fat women, anorexics, young girls - with the views of leading experts, the film explores the kind of hunger that cannot be satisfied by food.~Participants in the film include, among others, writer and therapist Susie Orbach, author of "Fat is a Feminist Issue" and "Hunger Strike"; eco-feminist theorist Susan Griffin, author of "Woman and Nature" and "Pornography and Silence"; Jungian psychoanalyst Marion Woodman, author of "The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter" and "Addiction to Perfection"; social historian Joan Brumberg, author of the recent study of anorexia "Fasting Girls"; Dr. Miriam Rossi of Toronto's Sick Children's Hospital; large-size fitness pioneer Suzanne Bell; psychologist Susan Wooley, eating disorders therapist from the University of Cincinnati Medical School; cultural anthropologist Margaret Mackenzie; Toronto eating disorders therapist Catrina Brown; bio-medical researcher Paul Ernsberger of Cleveland Western Reserve University; and poet Maggie Helwig. <119mn 26s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. The running time is based on the measured length of the archives' master print.~2. First shown 1990-09-12 at the Festival of Festivals, Toronto.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9308-0045

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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