Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library : La Corona (2008) and Perfect Image? (1988) February 4, 2009

Two short films about perceptions of beauty. La Corona is a 2008 Oscar nominated documentary short subject about a beauty pageant in a Colombian prison; in Perfect Image?, two actresses perform a series of sketches exposing stereotypical images of Black women and exploring women's own ideas of self worth.

Speaker: Helen Elaine Lee, Professor, Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies, MIT

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