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"Revealing, sensitive, and yes, funny, WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES is a wonderful deconstruction of the construction of desire. I strongly recommend it as a teaching tool for academic as well as community environments."
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Dee-Dee, a Brooklyn barber covers his wall with magazine pin-ups of women. He wishes that real women could look more like the images on "his wall of beauty." However, when Dee-Dee is introduced to the art of photo-retouching, his perceptions of beauty are called into question. WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES is a Sundance award-winning documentary film, that uses humor to raise serious concerns about the marketplace of commercial illusion and unrealizable standards of physical perfection. The goal of this film is to start discussions about body image issues. SPECIAL FEATURES The New DVD has both a censored (beeped) version and non-censored. Appropriate for:
12 minutes • DVD
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REVIEWS "Places that have used WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES: "Epstein's quirky, quietly radical film shows consciousnesses being raised right on camera, as Dee Dee learns that "my man had a lot of wet dreams, to a lot of false images". A riveting examination of how retouching has enforced an utterly unrealizable standard of female beauty, even at street level." "There's no intention to break this guy's love for these women, but just to show him how these women actually become what they are. And so begins an absorbing twelve minutes...Wet Dreams keeps it all honest...Its purpose is to educate on a matter like this and that has been accomplished exceedingly well." "This film makes the study of society and the media relevant to students by speaking to their everyday experiences and inspires them to speak as well -- guaranteed to spark lively classroom conversations." "I use WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES with both high school and university-age youth, and find it a great tool for generating conversation about media manipulation, male gaze, and unattainable ideals of female beauty Students are engaged by both the topic and the humor."
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