Town Bloody Hall

Thematic Leadership Through a Gender Lens Curated by Chris Hegedus and Marie Wilson

On April 20, 1971, Norman Mailer met with a diverse group of feminists, appearing on a panel at New York City’s Town Hall to discuss his infamous essay on feminism, “The Prisoner of Sex.” The film features Mailer at his most acerbically witty and his most aggravatingly patronizing as he takes on outrageous Village Voice columnist Jill Johnston, level-headed literary critic Diana Trilling, bourgeois N.O.W. president Jacqueline Ceballos, and the formidable Germaine Greer—author of The Female Eunuch.

Directors

Chris Hegedus, D A Pennebaker

Producers

Chris Hegedus, D A Pennebaker

Release Year

1979

Festival Year

2003

Country

United States

Run Time

75 minutes