12th Annual International Women's Film Festival

Program Details

January 31, 2008

MADE OVER IN AMERICA (USA, 2007, 65 min., Documentary Feature, Directed by Bernadette Wegenstein & Geoffrey Alan Rhodes)

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In the age of surgically enhanced beauty and reality television, how do we perceive body image? MADE OVER IN AMERICA combines the style of reality television with experimental film to weave together the voices of producers and consumers, surgeons and their patients, clinical psychologists, media theorists, and youth who are coming of age in a culture where bodies seem to be customizable. Together they form a picture of how the desire for a better self operates within consumer culture and how this desire is fed by media, the makeover industry and culture at large.

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