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The yellow wallpaper / Women Make Movies ; screenplay by Marie Ashton ; produced by Marie Ashton, Este Gardner ; directed by Marie Ashton.
- Format:
- Video
- Standardized Title:
- Yellow wallpaper (Motion picture : 1977)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women authors--Drama.
- Women authors.
- Imprisonment.
- Physicians' spouses.
- Mentally ill women.
- Male domination (Social structure).
- Neurasthenia.
- Postpartum depression.
- Postpartum depression--Drama.
- Neurasthenia--Drama.
- Male domination (Social structure)--Drama.
- Mentally ill women--Drama.
- Physicians' spouses--Drama.
- Imprisonment--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Short films.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (13 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Distributed by] Women Make Movies, [2021]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Forced by her doctor husband to live in an attic where the walls are covered in a sickly yellow wallpaper, she is forbidden to write but does so anyway, keeping her journal hidden from her husband. Her isolation and confinement lead her to become completely absorbed in fantasies related to the wallpaper.
- Participant:
- Sigurd Wurschmidt, Tom Dahlgren, Susan Lynch.
- Credits:
- Director of cinematography, Judy Irola ; music composed and arranged by Rick Nowels ; editor, Marie Ashton.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- "Based on the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, written in 1890."
- Originally produced in 1978; previously released in 1989.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 19, 2021).
- Publisher Number:
- wm-yw Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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