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She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48)
Newsreel
1969
BW
17 minutes
US
English
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She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48)

This film documents a play given at the March 28th, 1969 abortion rally by some very angry women. A beauty contestant is primed by her mother, her teacher, her boyfriend, an ad man, and a capitalist for the roles she must fulfill to be a successful winner.
Third World Newsreel's historical Newsreel collection provides contemporary audiences with a vast archive of political documentary films chronicling the social movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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"A film documenting guerrilla theater that took place during an abortion rally in 1969. Women playing the roles of a capitalist, an advertiser, a boyfriend, and a mother demand a young woman become the ideal woman, a beautiful and efficient wife who can perfectly tend to household chores. In a public space where there is no separate stage, the performers become one with the audience with whom they discuss each of their roles and relationships. The audience exhibit direct and unfiltered agreement and anger. A lively and effective consciousness-raising takes place on film." - Cho Hye-young, International Women's Film Festival in Seoul
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