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, Longworth is delving even deeper into the intersection of Hollywood and beauty, interrogating what it felt like to be the women at the center of these machines, promoting false ideals.
“I think it’s hard for a lot of people to have much empathy for actresses who feel that they have to go on extreme diets or use dangerous cosmetic products, or change something about the way they look in order to succeed,” explains Longworth. “After all, film and television are visual mediums. It only makes sense that you’d have to look good in order to participate in them at the highest level.”
“In the world we live in now, social media allows us to see images of people whose entire living is based on their looks—whether they are performers in conventional Hollywood productions or not—in a context in which we are told or made to think that what we are seeing is ‘real,’ or at least [we are] encouraged to ignore the many layers of mediation and manipulation of the image we’re looking at,” she explains. “This does an extreme version of what movies have been doing for over 100 years.
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