Beauty mark
- Date
2009
- Main contributors
Precht, Carla; Israel, Diane; Man, Kathleen; SheArt Productions; Salmon Pictures
- Summary
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Diane Israel, a Boulder-based psychotherapist and former champion triathlete, talks candidly about her long and agonizing personal struggle with eating disorders and obsessive exercising, fearlessly confronting her own painful past as she attempt to come to terms with American culture's unhealthy fixation on self-destructive ideals of beauty and competitiveness. The film lends context to Israel's personal odyssey with fascinating insights from athletes, bodybuilders, fashion models, and inner-city teens, as well as prominent cultural critics and authors.
- Contributor
Israel, Diane
- Publisher
Media Education Foundation
- Genres
Documentary films; Autobiographical films
- Subjects
Personal and Family Lives; Sports, Recreation; Health, Family Studies; Anorexia nervosa -- Patients -- United States -- Biography; Exercise addiction -- Patients -- United States -- Biography; Body image; Beauty, Personal -- Psychological aspects; Competition (Psychology) -- Health aspects
- Locations
North America; United States; Massachusetts; Northampton
- Collection
Films@UM
- Unit
Distinctive Media Collections
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- In Copyright
- Terms of Use
Access is restricted to patrons at the University of Maryland.
- Physical Description
53 minutes; color
- Notes
Films @ UM
Access
Access condition: campus-only.
- Other Identifiers
Filename: lms-090485; Fedora 2 PID: umd:76404; Handle Identifier: hdl:1903.1/10664; Catalog Key: alephsys003886163; OCLC: ocn664353846
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: collection staff, users in specific IP Ranges.