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Pink Ribbons, Inc: Capitalizing on Hope

Pinkwashing cancer – Pink Ribbons, Inc. looks at capitalising on hope

By tigtog on February 4, 2012

Doco examines how devastating disease became shiny pink marketing dream diverting donations away from organisations doing most of the work towards organisations with better PR. Is this the best use of donors’ money? And what about all the non-pinkified cancers?

Posted in Activism, Consumerism, Ethics, Film, TV, Video etc, Health, Medicine | Tagged breast cancer, cancer, documentary film, pinkwashing | 29 Responses

Thursday Whimsy

By tigtog on January 20, 2011

This week’s whimsy is brought to you by wild polar bears playing football with a camera embedded in a very tough sphere, from a BBC documentary narrated by the dulcet Highland tones of David Tennant.

Posted in Levity | Tagged documentary film, whimsy | 14 Responses

Guest post by Aaron Darc: Morgan and the Multiplex

By Guest Poster on August 7, 2008

Aaron Darc, whose work will be familiar to LPers from his incarnation as Eye on Big Brother, recently interviewed film maker Morgan Spurlock. Spurlock came to prominence with Super Size Me and his new film Where in the World is [...]

Posted in Consumerism, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Food, Foreign policy, Life, Masculinity, Relationships, Religion, Sociology, Terrorism, Urbanism, USA, War | Tagged class and culture, cultural distinction, cultural studies, Culture Wars, documentary film, elitism, Film, morgan spurlock, pop psychology, popular culture, social class, Sociology, suburbia, super size me, tim brunero, where in the world is osama bin laden | 193 Responses

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