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Newsreel. 22, Up against the wall, Ms. America /

Here she comes ... At the 1968 Miss America pageant, demonstrators introduced a sheep as the appropriate winner. This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents. The film was widely screened by...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Third World Newsreel, 1968.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Beauty contests > United States > History.
Feminism > United States.
Women > United States > Social conditions.
Concours de beauté > États-Unis > Histoire.
Féminisme > États-Unis.
Femmes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Beauty contests
Feminism
Women > Social conditions
United States
Feature films
History
Short films
Short films.
Feature films.
Courts métrages.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Here she comes ... At the 1968 Miss America pageant, demonstrators introduced a sheep as the appropriate winner. This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents. The film was widely screened by the second wave women's movement and is a vivid document of the movement's activists in action.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed May 08, 2020).
Physical Description:1 online resource (7 minutes)
Playing Time:00:06:09