Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Town bloody hall / by Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker ; Theater for Ideas presents ; produced by Shirley Broughton and Edith Van Slyck.

Publisher, Date:

[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]

Description:

1 videodisc (85 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

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.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Series:

Criterion collection, 1039

Criterion collection ; 1039.

Subjects:

Mailer, Norman.

Ceballos, Jacqueline Michot, 1925-

Johnston, Jill.

Greer, Germaine, 1939-

Trilling, Diana.

Women's rights -- United States.

Sex role -- United States.

Sex differences (Psychology)

Feminism -- United States.

Feminism and literature -- United States.

Politics and culture -- United States.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Hegedus, Chris, film director, film editor.

Pennebaker, D. A., film director, director of photography.

Broughton, Shirley, film producer.

Van Slyck, Edith, film producer.

Doob, Nick, director of photography.

Woodcock, Mark, director of photography.

Ceballos, Jacqueline Michot, 1925- on-screen participant.

Greer, Germaine, 1939- on-screen participant.

Johnston, Jill, on-screen participant.

Mailer, Norman, on-screen participant.

Trilling, Diana, on-screen participant.

Anderson, Melissa, (Critic) essayist.

Theatre for ideas, presenter.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

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.

Filmed by Jim Desmond, D.A. Pennebaker, Mark Woodcock ; editor, Chris Hegedus.

Participants: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, Norman Mailer, Diana Trilling.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1); monaural.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

ISBN:

9781681437484

1681437481

Publisher Number:

CC3176DDVD

Other Number:

1159458275

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

848780

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 305.42 Town blo