Taking advertisements from magazines, newspapers, album covers and shop front windows, KILLING US SOFTLY presents specific examples of the ways in which advertisements reinforce stereotypes, affect our self-image and how we relate to each other, our concepts of success and worth, love and sexuality, popularity and normality. Using an intriguing mixture of statistics, humor, insight and outrage, Jean Kilbourne questions how far the use and abuse of women in advertising is connected to the sexual exploitation of women at large and the increasing incidence of child abuse.
Jean Kilbourne
Director
The Class of ‘9271%
The Corporation76%
My Mom Jayne80%
180° South72%
A Plastic Ocean75%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Tabloid64%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Directed by John Ford70%
Public Speaking70%
McQueen74%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Harmontown66%
Love, Antosha74%
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me60%
Report61%
Maternal Instinct71%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
The U.S. vs. John Lennon67%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
