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Arresting Ana : a film /

Sarah, a French college student runs a "pro-Ana" blog, part of a global online community of young women sharing tips on living with anorexia. Valerie Boyer is a passionate French National Assembly legislator proposing a groundbreaking bill to ban these online forums, issuing hefty fines an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schwartz, Lucie
Corporate Author: Women Make Movies (Firm)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
French
Language Notes:French, English subtitles.
Published: New York, NY : Women Make Movies, ©2009.
Subjects:
Young women > Blogs > Moral and ethical aspects.
Young women > Blogs > Law and legislation > France.
Eating disorders > Patients > Blogs > Moral and ethical aspects.
Eating disorders > Patients > Blogs > Law and legislation > France.
Anorexia nervosa > Patients > Blogs > Moral and ethical aspects.
Anorexia nervosa > Patients > Blogs > Law and legislation > France.
Bulimia > Patients > Blogs > Moral and ethical aspects.
Bulimia > Patients > Blogs > Law and legislation > France.
Eating disorders > Patients > Blogs.
Eating disorders > Patients > France > Personal narratives.
Body image in women.
France > Law and legislation.
Mass media > Moral and ethical aspects.
Anorexia nervosa.
Anorexia Nervosa
Body Image
Women > psychology
Blogging > ethics
Blogging > legislation & jurisprudence
Self-Help Groups > ethics
France
Jeunes femmes > Blogues > Aspect moral.
Troubles du comportement alimentaire > Patients > Blogues > Aspect moral.
Anorexiques > Blogues > Aspect moral.
Boulimiques > Blogues > Aspect moral.
Troubles du comportement alimentaire > Patients > Blogues.
Troubles du comportement alimentaire > Patients > France > Récits personnels.
Image du corps chez la femme.
Médias > Aspect moral.
Anorexie mentale.
Anorexia nervosa
Body image in women
Eating disorders > Patients
Legislation
Mass media > Moral and ethical aspects
Documentary films.
Documentaries and Factual Films
Short films > United States.
documentary film.
Blogs
Documentary films
Nonfiction films
Personal narratives
Short films
Nonfiction films.
Short films.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Courts métrages.
Description
Summary:Sarah, a French college student runs a "pro-Ana" blog, part of a global online community of young women sharing tips on living with anorexia. Valerie Boyer is a passionate French National Assembly legislator proposing a groundbreaking bill to ban these online forums, issuing hefty fines and two-year prison sentences to their members. This documentary offers an unprecedented access into anorexia's hidden underground and considers how legal and free-speech issues are contested in a new media landscape.
Item Description:Videodisc release of the documentary produced at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, c2008 by Lucie Schwartz.
"Made possible in part by a grant from Margaret and Will Hearst UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism."
Public performance rights included.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD.
Production Credits:Music by Ryan Luckey.