A jury of her peers /
Dramatizes the short story by Susan Glaspell about the isolation and oppression of a farmwoman in rural America in 1900. A farmer is found murdered at a remote farmhouse, and his wife is jailed as the prime suspect. A motive for the murder gradually comes to light as evidence of the physical and emo...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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[New York, New York] :
[Distributed by] Women Make Movies,
[1980]
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Dramatizes the short story by Susan Glaspell about the isolation and oppression of a farmwoman in rural America in 1900. A farmer is found murdered at a remote farmhouse, and his wife is jailed as the prime suspect. A motive for the murder gradually comes to light as evidence of the physical and emotional abuse of the suspect emerges. |
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| Item Description: | Originally produced in 1980. Title from title frames. |
| Physical Description: | 1 streaming video file (30 min.) : digital, sound, color |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. 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. |
| Production Credits: | Camera, Janet Meyers ; sound editor, Josh Waletzky. |
| Access: | Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
