Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women
1979, English. Directed by Jean Kilbourne.
Taking advertisements from magazines, newspapers, album covers and shop front windows, KILLING US SOFTLY presents specific examples of the ways in which advertisements reinforce stereotypes, affect our self-image and how we relate to each other, our concepts of success and worth, love and sexuality, popularity and normality. Using an intriguing mixture of statistics, humor, insight and outrage, Jean Kilbourne questions how far the use and abuse of women in advertising is connected to the sexual exploitation of women at large and the increasing incidence of child abuse.
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Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1979. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women (1979) was directed by Jean Kilbourne.