director:
Elena Rossini
playwright:
Elena Rossini
actor:
Jean Kilbourne
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Susie Orbach
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Laura Mulvey
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Gail Dines
genre:
Documentary
region:
United States
length: 1h 26m
release date: 2016-11-16
IMDb: tt3396666
Overview
Sex sells. What sells even more? Insecurity. Multi-billion dollar industries saturate our lives with images of unattainable beauty, exporting body hatred from New York to Beirut to Tokyo. Their target? Women, and increasingly men and children. "The Illusionists" turns the mirror on media, exposing the absurd, sometimes humorous, and shocking images that seek to enslave us.