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Defending our lives

Title
Defending our lives [videorecording] / Cambridge Documentary Films ; produced and directed by Margaret Lazarus and Renner Wunderlich of Cambridge Documentary Films, Stacey Kabat of Battered Women Fighting Back.
Publication
Cambridge, MA : Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc., c1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Lazarus, Margaret.
  • Wunderlich, Renner.
  • Kabat, Stacey.
  • Cambridge Documentary Films.
Description
1 videocassette (41 min.) : sd., col.,; 1/2 in.
Summary
Examines the pervasive problem of domestic violence through the cases of four women imprisoned for killing their batterers. Film cuts between interviews with each of the women and speeches by Sarah Buel, Assistant District Attorney Suffolk County, and Meekah Scott, a woman sentenced to 8-12 years for killing her batterer. Winner of the 1994 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.
Subject
  • Abused women > United States
  • Wife abuse > United States
  • Family violence > United States
  • Justifiable homicide > United States
Credits (note)
  • Camera, Jeff Kleinman, Renner Wunderlich.
System Details (note)
  • VHS.
OCLC
28170081
Title
Defending our lives [videorecording] / Cambridge Documentary Films ; produced and directed by Margaret Lazarus and Renner Wunderlich of Cambridge Documentary Films, Stacey Kabat of Battered Women Fighting Back.
Imprint
Cambridge, MA : Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc., c1993.
System Details
VHS.
Credits
Camera, Jeff Kleinman, Renner Wunderlich.
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Added Author
Lazarus, Margaret.
Wunderlich, Renner.
Kabat, Stacey.
Cambridge Documentary Films.
Branch Call Number
VC 362.8292 D
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