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Dialogues with madwomen / directed by Allie Light ; produced by Allie Light & Irving Saraf.
LIBRA VHS RC451.4.W6 D53 1993
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mentally ill--Biography.
- Mentally ill.
- Women--Mental health.
- Women.
- Mental Disorders.
- Women--psychology.
- Social Behavior.
- Medical Subjects:
- Mental Disorders.
- Women--psychology.
- Social Behavior.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco, Calif.?] : Light-Saraf Films : Distributed by Women Make Movies, 1993.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Features seven women--including the filmmaker--describing their experiences with manic depression, multiple personalities, schizophrenia, euphoria, and recovery. Candid interviews are combined with dramatic reenactments and visualizations of each women's history, emotions, and dreams--the private symbols of madness and sanity. The social dimensions of women and mental illness are revealed in testimony about sexual assault, incest, racism and homophobia, the abuses of the medical establishment, family, and church.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Irving Saraf ; editors, Irving Saraf, Allie Light; music, Rachel Bagby.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 39236265
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