Town bloody hall, a film by Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker
Type
Label
Town bloody hall, a film by Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Rating: Not rated
Main title
Town bloody hall
Oclc number
1159716102
Responsibility statement
a film by Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker
Runtime
85
Series statement
Criterion collection
Summary
On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York2s intellectual elite packed the city2s Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay 1The Prisoner of Sex2 and the backlash it received from leaders of the women2s movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana TrillingSpecial 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
Technique
live action
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Content
resource.filmdirector
Is Part Of
onscreenparticipant
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor7
- Genre3
- Subject12
- Content1
- resource.filmdirector2
- Is Part Of1
- onscreenparticipant4
- Publisher1
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