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Not a pretty picture / Coolidge Productions ; produced, written and directed by Martha Coolidge.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 037 443 disc + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1230.
- The Criterion collection ; 1230
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coolidge, Martha--Drama.
- Coolidge, Martha.
- Date rape--Psychological aspects--Drama.
- Date rape.
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Autobiographical films.
- Documentary-style films.
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Social problem films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 folded leaf : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
- 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2024]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1: full frame (1.33:1) presentation, Dolby Digital monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "Trailblazing filmmaker Martha Coolidge made her feature debut with this unflinchingly personal hybrid of documentary and fiction. Centered on an intense reenactment of Coolidge's experience of rape in her adolescence, the film casts Michele Manenti (also a survivor) as the director's younger self and observes the actor and her castmates as they engage in a profound dialogue about what it means to recreate these traumatic memories, and about their attitudes concerning consent and self-blame. A high stakes experiment in meta cinema that broke new ground with its uncompromising examination of date rape, Not a Pretty Picture brings a stunning immediacy to questions about the on-screen representation of sexual violence and the limits of artistic catharsis."--Container.
- Participant:
- Michele Manenti, Jim Carrington, Anne Mundstuk.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Don Lenzer; editors, Suzanne Pettit, Martha Coolidge; music, Tom Griffith.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1976.
- ISBN:
- 9798886071764
- OCLC:
- 1442022356
- Publisher Number:
- 715515300612
- CC3588DDVD Criterion Collection
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