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This 6 page research paper reports on a documentary by Darryl Roberts, American the Beautiful (2007), and the ramifications of the U.S. cultural obsession with an unattainable beauty standard. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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In order for mental health counselors to address successfully the eating disorders, depression and low self-esteem that this factor in American culture generates, they need to understand its origin and
impact on peoples lives. An insightful documentary created by Darryl Roberts in 2007, America the Beautiful, offers considerable insight into the countrys obsession with beauty and the impact of body
image on womens lives. Near the beginning of documentary, Roberts introduces his audience to Geffen Taylor, a slender, beautiful, six-foot-tall African American model, whose beauty perfectly exemplifies the current
beauty ideal. He then explains his discomfort at seeing Geffen surrounded by nude bathing and the consumption of alcoholic beverages by pointing out that she is twelve years old. This
prompts him to comment on the absurdity of a beauty standard that holds the slender form of a twelve-year-old up to mature women as an ideal. Roberts, a Chicago-based filmmaker,
readily admits that, in the past, he, like millions of other American men, has been swayed by Americas obsession with an absurd and unattainable standard of beauty. He relates that
he once had a girlfriend who was beautiful, brilliant and engaging, but that he ended the relationship because he was convinced he could find someone even more beautiful and he
wonders now what prompted him to be so superficial, stupid and shallow. Therefore, this wide-ranging documentary is his quest to find the origins of Americas and his own obsession with
beauty. His documentary reveals how beauty standards are manufactured and manipulated by the huge industry that benefits from presenting models that represent a beauty standard that is unattainable. The
film shows how women react to these ads, struggling with their appearance and their self-esteem, trying to live up to the air-brushed images of models, which emphasizes the point that
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