Miss...Or Myth?
1987•1h 0m•8.0•Released
Documentary
A feminist activist organization determined to bring attention to superficiality and the rampant objectification of women in modern American society chooses the 1985 Miss California Beauty Pageant as the site for its disruptive guerrilla demonstration. The group meets in Santa Cruz, Calif., and orchestrates its own competition -- one that attracts media attention and shocks passersby with its thought-provoking and satirical alternate reading of the institution of the American beauty pageant.
Director
Geoffrey Dunn
Writer
Geoffrey Dunn
Cast
Lisa Davenport
Self
Ann Simonton
Self
Lee Meriwether
Self
Debra Johnson
Self
Production
Producer
Mark Schwartz
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