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