- Title: Face Value
- Date: 13th December 1994
- Summary: A NEW SCIENCE, THE SCIENCE OF ATTRACTION HAS COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT BEAUTY IS OBJECTIVE AND QUANTIFIABLE AND NOT AS THE ROMANTICS SUGGEST, IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. DAVID PERRETT, A PSYCHOLOGIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS, BELIEVES THAT CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE FACE - LARGER THAN AVERAGE EYES AND LIPS, HIGH CHEEKBONES, NARROW CHIN AND SMOOTH SKIN - PLEASE THROUGH TIME AND A CROSS CULTURE. THE PROGRAMME PUTS HIS THEORIES TO THE TEST BY SPEAKING TO ART HISTORIANS ABOUT THE PORTRAYAL OF BEAUTY THROUGH TIME AND TO ANTHROPOLOGISTS ABOUT DIFFERENT CULTURES PERCEPTIONS OF ATTRACTIVENESS. WE ALSO APPLY PERRETT'S COMPUTER ANALYSIS TO TODAY'S FILM STARS AND SUPERMODELS AS WELL AS THE FACES OF CONTESTANTS IN STORM MODEL AGENCY'S FACE OF '94 COMPETITION.
- Description:WITHOUT WALLS: IS BEAUTY MEASURABLE SCIENTIFICALLY? HOW WOULD THE MONA LISA MEASURE UP?
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:TVF LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:13/12/1994
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s