She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry

Duration: 600

Year Published: 1969

Creator: The Newsreel Collective

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: California Newsreel (Firm); Newsreel (Firm)

Description: Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; A guerrilla theater piece on the role of women, performed at an anti-abortion rally in New York City in 1969. A beauty contestant is pressured into the roles necessary to be the "ideal woman."

Complete Record: In a skit presented at an abortion rally in New York City on March 28, 1969, a beauty contestant is pressured to fulfill certain roles in order to be the "ideal woman", a "winner". The skit shows how women, especially minority women, are used in this society for profit. The women who perform also discuss their personal lives and how their struggle as women is expressed in the skit.

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE