topccat29
29 year HT veteran
If you re going to watch one documentary on the beauty-industrial complex, this should be it Lisa Wade: Associate professor of Sociology Occidental College.
The link below is for a site that provides a free viewing of The Illusionist with a watermark. Otherwise it s $250 for the DVD. Worth the time in my opinion to increase one s knowledge base most especially for those that don t read. Of course it doesn t compare to extensive reading but it is a start and could help others understand what they are thinking and feeling and where it comes from or reinforce what they already know. If you have children I would encourage you even more to view it.
Towards the end they focus on bloggers, etc forcing change. Similar in many ways to what MADD did to the liquor industry in my opinion but they did it without the Internet. It only takes a few individuals who are disgusted enough by what they see. Towards the end they show how even a 14 year old girl forces change on her own. It s almost akin to what is happening with GMO. As the truth gets out there and the awareness grows, people start to make different choices and no longer perceive the promoters as the good guys but simple as unethical profiteers. As with food and cosmetics the smaller low key operators doing the right thing by being ethical are gaining a greater and greater foothold.
Here is the link. Go to the right side of the page and click full educational version.
http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=255
Here the description. Not directly hair related but one should be able to pick up at least one point that might be helpful towards making a better decision.
The Illusionists
A Film About the Globalization of Beauty
The Illusionists examines how global advertising firms, mass media conglomerates, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic surgery industries are changing the way people around the world define beauty and see themselves. Taking us from Harvard University to the halls of the Louvre Museum, from a cosmetic surgeon's office in Beirut to the heart of Tokyo's Electric Town, the film explores how these industries saturate our lives with narrow, Westernized, consumer-driven images of beauty that show little to no respect for biological realities or cultural differences. The Illusionists features prominent sociologists, politicians, magazine editors, scientists, artists, and activists in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Interviews include: Susie Orbach, Jean Kilbourne, Gail Dines, Susan Linn, Laura Mulvey, Harrison Pope, Nadine Moawad, Ruchi Anand, Paola Audrey Ndengue, Tetsuya Ando, and Jason Karlin.
The link below is for a site that provides a free viewing of The Illusionist with a watermark. Otherwise it s $250 for the DVD. Worth the time in my opinion to increase one s knowledge base most especially for those that don t read. Of course it doesn t compare to extensive reading but it is a start and could help others understand what they are thinking and feeling and where it comes from or reinforce what they already know. If you have children I would encourage you even more to view it.
Towards the end they focus on bloggers, etc forcing change. Similar in many ways to what MADD did to the liquor industry in my opinion but they did it without the Internet. It only takes a few individuals who are disgusted enough by what they see. Towards the end they show how even a 14 year old girl forces change on her own. It s almost akin to what is happening with GMO. As the truth gets out there and the awareness grows, people start to make different choices and no longer perceive the promoters as the good guys but simple as unethical profiteers. As with food and cosmetics the smaller low key operators doing the right thing by being ethical are gaining a greater and greater foothold.
Here is the link. Go to the right side of the page and click full educational version.
http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=255
Here the description. Not directly hair related but one should be able to pick up at least one point that might be helpful towards making a better decision.
The Illusionists
A Film About the Globalization of Beauty
The Illusionists examines how global advertising firms, mass media conglomerates, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic surgery industries are changing the way people around the world define beauty and see themselves. Taking us from Harvard University to the halls of the Louvre Museum, from a cosmetic surgeon's office in Beirut to the heart of Tokyo's Electric Town, the film explores how these industries saturate our lives with narrow, Westernized, consumer-driven images of beauty that show little to no respect for biological realities or cultural differences. The Illusionists features prominent sociologists, politicians, magazine editors, scientists, artists, and activists in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Interviews include: Susie Orbach, Jean Kilbourne, Gail Dines, Susan Linn, Laura Mulvey, Harrison Pope, Nadine Moawad, Ruchi Anand, Paola Audrey Ndengue, Tetsuya Ando, and Jason Karlin.
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