Film

Beauty in a Jar

9.020032hDocumentary

Director: Lisa Ades
Year: 2003

BEAUTY IN A JAR explores the social, racial, sexual and political history of the American beauty culture. How was the American ideal of beauty transformed over time? How does advertising tap into women's fantasies and hidden desires?

Top cast

Debi Mazar

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Helen Gurley Brown

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John Epperson

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Iman

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Kyra Sedgwick

Narrator

Kathy Peiss

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Directed by

Lisa Ades, Lesli Klainberg

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