Last semester I co-taught a class with the chair of the OT faculty called "Women, the Church, and Cultural and Ecclesial Diversity" (weighty title!), and I actually used that second short film in the class on the day that we talked about the way the media has co-opted the female body (and, by correlation, female sexuality) and turned it into a distorted canvas for advertising. There are also a series of documentaries that our media library had available, called "Killing Us Softly," made in the '70s, '80s, and '90s by a filmmaker called Jean Kilbourne. They're three really in-depth explorations of how the advertising industry constantly puts forth negative stereotypes of women, and how such images damage both women and men. I'd love to own these documentaries myself, but I haven't been able to find them for purchase or even for hire anywhere except university libraries. But if you ever get to see them, you totally should. Powerful stuff, incredibly powerful.
(I'm thinking you didn't mean this to happen, but the second one is the same link as the third one.)
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(I'm thinking you didn't mean this to happen, but the second one is the same link as the third one.)