I recently saw this presentation and it is wonderful and full of
food for thought!
Michal
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LABORING UNDER AN ILLUSION:
PORTRAYAL OF CHILDBIRTH IN THE MASS MEDIA

Monday, February 11, 4:30 pm
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Monday, February 11, 6:00 pm

Duke's Room, UMass Student Union
Amherst, Massachusetts

A one hour lecture/video presentation with Vicki Elson, MA, CCE Just
updated with nearly 100 video clips from movies and TV!

Fiction, reality, comedy, drama...

*Media motifs that empower and disempower women and men

*"Reality" shows that normalize medicalization and exoticize
natural birth

*The addition of gratuitous drama

*How imagery affects viewers, shapes cultural beliefs, and
influences medical decisions

*The importance of media literacy

*Suggestions for helping viewers become less vulnerable to
frightening imagery

*Examples of imagery that restore confidence in women's bodies

Vicki Elson, MA, CCE
(413) 369-4900 phone
(413) 369-4933 fax
vickielson@...

"Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so
small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all
in a contented dazzlement of surprise."

--Lewis Thomas, The Lives Of A Cell