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A good documentary film by Elena Rossini (2015), adapted to radio by KD.
It's about the damage--social, physical, and psychological--wrought by the huge and profitable "beauty" industry.
One of this film's virtues is its international scope. Throughout the world, the bad effects of the beauty business are remarkably similar--but the regional variations are very interesting. The focus shifts among. Boston, Paris, Milan, Beirut, Mumbai, and Tokyo.
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Another virtue: the films focus includes men--the industrys latest target--as well as women.
This weeks installment explores how the industry promotes personal insecurity ... how people worldwide have been persuaded to desire European features ... and how Third-World people are encouraged to lighten their skin color.
Introduction by KD.
"New World Notes" is produced under the auspices (Latin for "What, me worry?") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
This installment of New World Notes is available also--in MP3 and other formats--on The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/NewWorldNotes569-TheIllusionistsPart1
New World Notes's Web site has information, photos, interesting links, and a free archive of past shows. http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com . Also, radio4all.net has each show from May 2008.
SERIES OVERVIEW -- Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for. "Date recorded," below, = date of first scheduled broadcast.
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