“Eating Disorders, Body Image, Perfectionism” - TWO Documentary Screenings - Author of "Feminism, Inc." February 23, 2010

In recognition of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week – and a society that often places high value on physical beauty and thinness …

“Eating Disorders, Body Image, Perfectionism”

• Documentary Screenings/Q & A with filmmakers:
--Beauty in the Eyes of the Beheld by Lisa Figueroa Kravinsky;
--Wet Dreams & False Images (Sundance Award Winner) by Jesse Epstein

• Emilie Zaslow, Pace Assistant Professor of Communications Studies and author of Feminism, Inc.: Coming of Age in Girl Power Media Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) discusses how mediated images work to shape young people's perceptions of beauty as well as body size and shape.

Event is FREE and open to the general public (male & female)

Why: To raise consciousness during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (Feb 21 - 27) about the potentially life-threatening seriousness of eating disorders and the societal pressures, attitudes and behaviors which contribute to them. Also to spread a message of hope: Help is available, recovery is possible and those affected are not alone in their struggle!

Who/What: "Beauty in the Eyes of the Beheld" is a documentary by Liza Figueroa Kravinsky looking at modern perceptions of beauty – including weight. “Being beautiful is overrated,” says the filmmaker, who interviewed and followed the lives of former beauty pageant queens, a physician, an exotic dancer, an entrepreneur and a musician who worked with famous rock star Prince.

"Wet Dreams and False Images" is a Sundance award-winning documentary by Jesse Epstein that utilizes humor to raise serious concerns about the marketplace of commercial illusion – photo retouching in magazines and ads – and unrealizable standards of physical perfection.

RSVP/General Information: Dr. Brian Petersen, Pace Counseling Center, email: bpetersen@pace.edu

Official Website: http://www.pace.edu