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Title:

A Jury of her peers [videorecording] : a film by Sally Heckel / produced, directed, edited by Sally Heckel ; research, script, Bette Fried.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

Distributed by Women Make Movies,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Glaspell, Susan,--1876-1948--Film adaptations.
Farm life--Drama.
Wife abuse--Drama.
Murder--Drama.
United States--Social life and customs--1865-1918--Drama.

Other Authors:

Heckel, Sally.
Fried, Bette.
De Lorian, Diane.
Lancaster, Dorothy.
Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948. Jury of her peers.
Women Make Movies (Firm)

Notes:

Diane de Lorian, Dorothy Lancaster.

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.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)73518288

Locations:

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)