Town bloody hall

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On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York's intellectual elite packed the city's Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay 'The Prisoner of Sex' and the backlash it received from leaders of the women's movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling.

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Ceballos, Jacqueline Michot, 1925-

Documentary films

Feature films

Feminism United States

Feminism and literature United States

Films for hard of hearing people

Greer, Germaine, 1939-

Johnston, Jill

Mailer, Norman

Politics and culture United States

Sex differences (Psychology)

Sex role United States

Trilling, Diana

Women's rights United States

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Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1039

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ISBN:

9781681437484

Description:

1 videodisc (85 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
digital
optical
mono
videodisc
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
polychrome

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: NR

Notes:

Title from title frame
Originally released as a motion picture in 1979
Full screen (1.33:1)
Special features: new interview with Hegedus; audio commentary from 2004 featuring Hegedus and author Germaine Geer; footage from a 2004 celebration of the film, which brought together participants Greer, Jacqueline Ceballos and Jill Johnston and directors Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker; appearance from 1971 on The Dick Cavett Show by author Norman Mailer, promoting his book The prisoner of sex; archival interviews with Greer and Mailer; essay by film critic Melissa Anderson
Region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1); monaural
Filmed by Jim Desmond, D.A. Pennebaker, Mark Woodcock ; editor, Chris Hegedus
Participants: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, Norman Mailer, Diana Trilling
DVD
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)

LCCN:

be2020013359

Control Number:

3000472

UPC:

715515250016

Other Authors:

Anderson, Melissa, (Critic), essayist
Broughton, Shirley, film producer
Ceballos, Jacqueline Michot, 1925- on-screen participant
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Doob, Nick, director of photography
Greer, Germaine, 1939- on-screen participant
Hegedus, Chris, film director, film editor
Johnston, Jill, on-screen participant
Mailer, Norman, on-screen participant
Pennebaker, D. A., film director, director of photography
Theatre for ideas, presenter
Trilling, Diana, on-screen participant
Van Slyck, Edith, film producer
Woodcock, Mark, director of photography

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