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Films about beauty pageants, competitions that have traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, talent, character, and charitable involvement, through private interviews with judges and answers to public on-stage questions.
Documentary films about beauty pageants, competitions that have traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, talent, character, and charitable involvement, through private interviews with judges and answers to public on-stage questions.
Miss America is a documentary film directed by Lisa Ades that chronicle the Miss America pageant from its very beginnings in 1921 to the present-day pageant. The documentary was released as an episode of American Experience season 14 in January 2002.
The documentary follows five-year-old beauty contestant Swan Brooner and her mother, Robin Browne throughout the year of 1999 as Brooner moves from a pageant in Cape Coral, Florida to the higher profile southern pageants. [3] The film further explore the sexualization element prominent despite pageant contestants' young age. [4] [5]
Critics of beauty pageants argue that such contests reinforce the idea that girls and women should be valued primarily for their physical appearance, and that this puts tremendous pressure on women to conform to conventional beauty standards by spending time and money on fashion, cosmetics, hair styling, and even cosmetic surgery.
Williams made history by becoming the first black woman crowned in the pageant's 63-years. In fact, during Miss America's first 30 years of competition, black women were not even allowed to ...
A 60-year-old woman saw her dreams of becoming the oldest Miss Universe contestant in history melt away in a haze of sequins and selfies Saturday at Argentina’s annual beauty pageant. Alejandra ...
The Nudes-A-Poppin' pageant was organized by and held at Ponderosa Sun Club, a family nudist resort [5] founded in 1964 [6] and situated in Roselawn, Indiana. [7] The event was first held in 1975 [8] [3] to attract interest in the resort [9] and was subsequently held annually until 2019. [4] Its "Miss Nude Galaxy" beauty contest dated back to ...