Matt - A Clockwork Orange - Trailer

                            

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 darkly satirical science fiction film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. The film, which was made in England, concerns Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a charismatic delinquent whose pleasures are classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and so-called 'ultra-violence.' He leads a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie, and Dim), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian друг, “friend”, “buddy”). The film tells the horrific crime spree of his gang, his capture, and attempted rehabilitation via a controversial psychological conditioning technique. Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured, contemporary adolescent slang comprising Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang.
This cinematic adaptation was produced, directed, and written by Stanley Kubrick. It features disturbing, violent images, to facilitate social commentary about psychiatry, youth gangs, and other contemporary social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian, future Britain.

Source: Wikipedia

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0012.html

"The problems really started when the press reported a spate of supposed copy-cat crimes. The first and most famous of these was the case involving a 16 year old boy called James Palmer who had beaten to death a tramp in Oxfordshire. As Edward Laxton reported in the Daily Mirror, in a convincing enough manner that the more reactionary reader might suspect that, A Clockwork Orange was terrible enough to influence even the most unassuming and hitherto quite innocent of young men, it was clear that the press were going to make the film even more controversial. "The terrifying violence of the film A Clockwork Orange fascinated a quiet boy from a Grammar School...And it turned him into a brutal murderer". Laxton continues, "The boy viciously battered to death a harmless old tramp as he acted out in real life a scene straight from the movie A Clockwork Orange"[31] "

Hannah - Little Miss Sunshine clip: "She Won"

http://www.vh1.com/video/movies/125269/she-won.jhtml#movieId=1522809

The film Little Miss Sunshine exemplifies the meaning of "beauty" associated with today's girls' perception of body image. The character Olive is a young girl who participates in beauty pageants because they make her feel important and she likes to win. Her desire to win is often pushed resiliently by her father who is falsely "winning" in his own career when he cannot "score the big deal" that he has been raving about, putting more pressure on the family's financial situation. Olive is not exactly the type of little girl you would associate with competing in beauty pageants and that is what makes the film's message so compelling. Olive has gnarly hair, wears big round grandma glasses, sports a sweatband on her head, is a little chubby, and doesn't have a sense of fashion. Olive is probably the most unique of all the girls she competes against and she never seems to get the message that she is not like the rest of them until the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. The girls who compete at the Little Miss Sunshine pageant are literally under the age of 10 and have fake spray tans of that nasty color orange that many girls in today's society aspire to look like (basically a health hazard in the making). The images of the other girls at the pageant are drastically different than what Olive is portrayed as. Olive becomes discouraged before her performance but realizes that it is what makes her unique that truly makes her a "winner". When she performs her talent everyone in the audience is mortified as she is dancing explicitly to Rick James' "Super Freak", a dance that her recently deceased grandfather had taught her. Olive is thus disqualified from the competition but her moral isn't affected.

This film really shows what the true perception of beauty is in the media today. If beauty wasn't hailed as being tan, blonde, skinny, and covered in makeup and accessories then why would these young girls in the pageants be dressing like future prostitutes of America? The answer is in itself, just look at how the sponge-like minds of today's youth react to the garbage they see and hear.

Hannah - CNN Blog About Adolescent Body Image

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/blogs/paging.dr.gupta/2007/08/pre-teen-body-image-issues.html

This blog post from a CNN Blog written by Dr. Gupta touches on the ever apparent body image ideals that young girls are expressing today...such as calling themselves fat when in reality they are not. In this post Dr. Gupta talks about how young pre-teens are feeling more pressure to be "thin" and that the root of the problem stems from what they see and hear from the media as well as what they hear and see in their own family dynamics. Gupta writes about how girls perceive body image as it is glorified in magazines, television shows, music videos, and other forms of popular culture.

Hannah - Seventeen Magazine "Body Peace Treaty"

Body Peace Treaty


Seventeen Magazine is a popular publication amongst the teen girl demographic. The magazine is not much different than the typical teen magazine which often is based around the usual teenage dilemmas, boy troubles, advice about school and family, and interesting stories about "girls like you." What makes Seventeen unique is the efforts that the magazine editors have taken in rallying up girls with low self esteem and making them believe that they actually are worth something. As teenagers, many girls' doubts and insecurities focus around their body image as it is apparent that the media targets us as a main source of business. The Body Peace Treaty brings girls together to accept themselves as they are and to move past the aesthetic aspect of being "what a girl should be" (aka what the media is telling us) and becoming comfortable in who we actually are.

Page from Seventeen Magazine promoting the Body Peace movement by showcasing female celebrities in today's media who are often associated with being strong women and demonstrating characteristics that deem them the type of women who "know who they are" and have confidence in themselves and their beliefs.