effects of media imagery

May 25, 2012

All Walks hosts Miss Representation at Parliament

May 25, 2012 / Blog, Campaign Films, Home page

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Arriving at the House of Commons in force, Wednesday 1st February 2012 saw a brigade of well-informed and well-heeled women gather to view award-winning documentary Miss Representation and to debate the under-representation of women in positions of power.

February 7, 2012

Interview: Samantha Donnelly on her Exhibition ‘Contour States’

Feb 7, 2012 / Blog

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Samantha Donnelly (centre) at the opening of her exhibition “Contour States” at The Cornerhouse, Manchester AW: The exhibition literature notes that your work is “concerned with the powerful effects of media imagery on the individual, and in particular with how the portrayal of women in the media shapes and defines them”. How do you think [...]