tillie olsen : a heart in action
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the tillie olsen film project. tillie olsen - a heart in action. a film by ann hershey. (link )
tillie olsen in 2001. the writer and activist, who died last year, is the subject of a new documentary ,
tillie olsen: a heart in action .
photo by christopher felver
hearing that line, filmmaker ann hershey, who was with olsen at the time, knew she' d found the title and opening sequence for her new documentary ,
tillie olsen: a heart in action .
tillie olsen: a heart in action / ann hershey; tillie olsen; frances reid; irving saraf; mary watkins; persimmon tree films. ; women make movies (firm); ; new york, ny: women make movies, 2007 .
i thought you might be interested in this item at urltoken title: tillie olsen: a heart in action author: ann hershey; tillie olsen; frances reid; irving saraf; mary watkins; persimmon tree films; women make movies (firm) publisher: new york, ny: women make movies, 2007. oclc: 232665483
summary a portrait of tillie olsen. includes interviews with alice walker, gloria steinem and tillie olsen' s daughters .
“a heart in action is, without a doubt, a gift to educators who are invested in trying to train students to develop a historical and political imagination. it restores olsen to the thirties milieu that formed her political sensibilities while simultaneously insisting upon her currency for ongoing projects of cultural studies and feminist activism within the present. educators interested in using hershey’s film might place it in conversation with works of feminist theory and cultural studies. . ”
tillie olsen: a heart in action: screens 7 p. m. monday. grand lake theater, 3200 grand lake ave. , oakland. tickets: $ 10. show includes a sing - along to labor and folk songs featuring ronnie gilbert. for information, call persimmon tree films at (510) 222 - 6931 or go to urltoken .
tillie olsen was 91 when she collapsed in omaha, neb. , where the venerable writer and activist had grown up in a working - class, russian - jewish socialist family, and where she' d returned in 2003 to receive an award from the high school she' d quit to take a factory job. in the hospital, she gazed in wonder at the ekg of her pulsing heart .
what better way to open the film ?
says hershey, who specializes in documentaries about creative older women and made a prize - winning 1976 film about bay area photographer imogen cunningham .
it was perfect for tillie. her heart was in action all the time, whether it was for civil rights and justice or getting people writing and telling their stories .
tillie lerner worked all kinds of jobs - waitress, laundress, pork trimmer in a packinghouse. she moved to san francisco in 1934, and plunged into the local labor struggle, which she wrote about for the new republic and partisan review. a member of the young communist league for a period, she fell in love with and eventually married jack olsen, a fellow communist who was a warehouseman and union official (he later taught the first labor studies class at city college of san francisco). he and tillie, who had a daughter from a previous relationship, had three more daughters, all of whom became involved in social action .
born in omaha, nebraska in 1912, olsen died in 2007 at the age of 94. a depression - era high school dropout, olsen made public libraries her college. she worked as a waitress and secretary for 20 years while raising four daughters .
i certainly didn' t want it to go on strike for better working conditions ,
joked olsen, who' d been arrested during the historic 1934 san francisco waterfront strike and over the ensuing decades and until her death at 94 on new year' s day 2007, was deeply engaged in the labor, anti - war and feminist movements .
it was a real thrill to see my own heart in action .
seven years in the making ,
tillie olsen: a heart in action ,
will premiere locally at oakland' s grand lake theater at 7 p. m. on monday, olsen' s birthday. before the screening, folksinger ronnie gilbert, an old friend and comrade of olsen' s, and members of olsen' s family will lead a sing - along of labor and folk songs like
i dreamed i saw joe hill last night
and
which side are you on ?
gilbert will sing
beloved comrade ,
as she does in the film when olsen kisses her parents' gravestones. the lyrics will be projected on the screen for those in the crowd who don' t know them .
oakland, ca - january 25, 2008. a new documentary on tillie olsen, feminist and award winning author ,
tillie olsen: a heart in action ,
will be shown on wednesday, february 6 at 6: 30 pm in lucie stern 100 at mills college, 5000 macarthur blvd. , oakland, ca. admission is free and open to the public. seating is limited. previous screenings of the film at the grand lake theater in oakland have sold out. the 66 - minute film, directed by filmmaker ann hershey, follows the life of an activist who fought against the silencing of women, and for the rights of american workers .
martin, abigail: tillie olsen (digital collections, albertsons library). (link )
a loving portrait of the san francisco writer best known for
tell me a riddle
- the poetic and wrenching 1961 novella about an old married couple facing the end of their hard lives - the film begins with the sound and image of olsen' s beating heart .
frye, joanna s. 1995. tillie olsen: a study of the short fiction. new york: twayne publishers, 1995 .
cusac, anne - marie: tillie olsen interview. the progressive, november 1999. (link )
hershey will answer questions following the screening. she will be introduced by mills alumna (class of' 94) rebekah edwards, the granddaughter of tillie olsen and a lecturer in the mills english department .
coiner, constance (1995): tillie olsen' s life. from: better red – the writing and resistance of tillie olsen and meridel le sueur. new york: oxford up, 1995. (link )
tillie olsen' s impassioned voice against the oppression of women inspired the voices of a new generation. for olsen, art and humanity were one; her life was her work of art
olsen, tillie. 1974. yonnondio: from the thirties. new york. delacorte press / seymour lawrence .
tillie olsen' s impassioned voice against the oppression of women inspired the voices of a new generation. for olsen, art and humanity were one; her life was her work of art ,
said mills president janet l. holmgren. olsen received an honorary doctor of letters degree from mills college in 1995 .
pearlman, mickey, and abby h. p. werlock. 1991. tillie olsen. boston: twayne publishers .
during the dark days of the mccarthy era in the 1950s, jack olsen was continually fired for his political past and often out of work. tillie, who was president of the pta, was accused of being a stalinist agent trying to infiltrate the schools; neighbors told their kids to shun the olsen girls. their mother worked as a secretary and at other jobs. she had little time for writing, a subject she explored in essays about impediments to writing that were published in her 1978 book ,
silences .
during this respite she was able to write, and began work on a novel about the holbrooks, a poor family struggling to eke out a living in the 20’s and early 30’s, first in a coal - mining town in wyoming, then on a tenant farm in south dakota, finally in a meat - packing center modelled on omaha. the novel remained unfinished but was eventually published in 1972 as yonnondio: from the thirties. it captures the pain and futility of the american midwestern rural and urban poor in vivid, psychologically wrenching scenes that show the crushing effects of poverty on father, mother and children. although the narrative perspective shifts repeatedly and includes poetic, stream - of - consciousness passages, the experiences of mother anna and daughter mazie receive the most development and offer the few momentary examples of hope for a better life .
olsen, tillie. 1961. tell me a riddle: a collection. reprints of “i stand here ironing, ” “hey sailor, what ship, ” “0 yes, ” and “tell me a riddle. ” philadelphia and new york. j. b. lippincott, 1961 .
in the film, olsen says she started writing about the lives of the working people she grew up with because
it was nearly impossible to find them in any of the books i read .
while still in her teens, she began writing the novel
yonnondio ,
which she took up again and published in the early' 70s. in this depression - era tale of a family struggling to survive, the mother, anna, dies of a botched abortion she performs on herself .
reid, panthea. 2010. tillie olsen: one woman, many riddles. new brunswick, nj and london. rutgers .
many women were forced to terminate their own pregnancies at the time ,
and tillie wanted to write about that. she was a woman writing about her life and her neighbors and her community ,
hershey says. like many women, the filmmaker discovered olsen during what she calls
the resurgence of the feminist movement
in the' 70s, when olsen became a feminist heroine, a role she took to .
olsen, now established as a prize - winning author and feminist icon, was showered with grants and visiting professorships, including neh and guggenheim grants, fellowships at the macdowell writers’ colony in new hampshire, visiting positions at mit, university of massachusetts boston, amherst college, ucla, university of minnesota and kenyon college. she was awarded at least six honorary degrees and was celebrated in 1981 when then mayor diane feinstein proclaimed may 18 “tillie olsen day” in san francisco. she maintained a hectic pace, appearing on podiums around the country (and abroad, as norway’s international visiting scholar in 1980); as in earlier years, olsen’s extraordinary public engagement both energized and exhausted her and again impeded actual writing .
tillie loved the grand lake, so when they said it was available on her birthday, i grabbed it ,
says hershey, sitting in her small sixth - floor office at the saul zaentz film center in berkeley .
nelson, kay hoyle, and nancy huse. 1994. the critical response to tillie olsen. westport, conn. greenwood press .
in 1955, on the basis of the short story
i stand here ironing ,
about a single mother' s pained relationship with her daughter, she scored a creative writing fellowship at stanford. a ford foundation grant a few years later gave her time to write
tell me riddle ,
which won the o. henry award for best short story in 1961 .
ann hershey’s film about the life of author and activist tillie olsen serves as a great introduction and overview of both olsen’s life and her published works from which they were drawn. overarching themes include the labor movement, family life, feminism, social justice and political movements specific to california’s bay area. these have been lived and written about by olsen and are present in the film both in the first person and as recollections by olsen’s daughters, her colleagues and scholars who have studied her life and writings .
“tillie olsen helps those of us condemned to silence—the poor, the racial minorities, the women—find our voices. ” (maxine hong kingston )
bosman, julie: tillie olsen, feminist writer, dies at 94. new york times, january 3, 2007. (link )
a biography of
tillie lerner olsen: a renegade, revolutionary, distinguished fiction and non - fiction writer, feminist, humanist, labor organizer and social activist. politically active, class conscious, deeply joined to the world, tillie countered the very core of american writing by immortalizing the lives of working class women and single mothers... extended interviews with olsen during the last years of her
“offers an invigorating biographical profile set against periods of dramatic social upheaval. a wonderful vehicle for encouraging a new generation to seek out olsen’s writing, this is highly recommended. ”
the biography is thorough and linear, beginning with olsen’s reminiscences of her childhood and family life in nebraska through to footage of her taken in 2006 shortly before her death on january 1, 2007. there is a wonderful amount of footage of tillie herself discussing her work, her choices, her motivation and circumstances as well as competing versions offered by her daughters .
subject olsen, tillie. women authors, american > biography. political activists > biography. genre biographical films. documentary films. nonfiction film .
she also neglected her daughter, pawning her off on relatives and allowing her to become ill and emaciated when under her charge. by 1936 she had broken up with abe goldfarb and begun a relationship with jack olsen, a party comrade and labor organizer. both had participated in the 1934 west coast waterfront strike and been jailed for their activities. tillie later tried to erase all mention of goldfarb in her biography; his mysterious death in a suspicious auto accident (1937) appears to have left her with long - lasting guilt feeings (reid 130). she and jack olsen would eventually marry and have three daughters .
rosenfelt, deborah silverton, hg. 1995. “tell me a riddle” by tillie olsen (women writers, texts and contexts series). new brunswick, n. j. rutgers university press, 1995 .
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olsen10 _ 010 _ lh. jpg director ann hershey spent seven years making a documentary about tillie olsen, the famed bay area writer and activist who died a year ago. liz hafalia / the chronicle / san francisco / 1 / 8 / 08... more
coiner, constance. 1995. better red: the writing and resistance of tillie olsen and meridel le sueur. new york: oxford university press .
tillie lerner’s adult life was no less full of both exuberance and despair, commitment and distraction. charismatic and beautiful, she joined the young communist league (ycl) in 1930, to the disapproval of her socialist parents, and met and secretly married abraham jevons goldfarb, a leftist writer and activist 17 years her senior. under the directives of the ycl she wrote, organized, participated in strikes, worked in a tie factory and at other jobs. when she became very ill, she was given a reprieve by the ycl and allowed to recover in faribault, minnesota at the home of her husband’s relatives .
after the reading ,
she' d stay, and a long line of people - of all ages, all ethnicities - would come up to her with old books in their hands, a torn copy of' tell me a riddle,'
recalls hershey, who made this low - budget film with grants and hundreds of donations. she mixed interviews with olsen, her family and writers with photographs and footage portraying the tumultuous times olsen lived through: czarist cossacks, lynched men - olsen tears up in the film as she recalls the sight and smell of a young african american she saw lynched and burned in omaha - picketing longshoremen, marching nazis, ravaged hiroshima .
olsen, tillie. 1978. silences. new york. delacorte press / seymour lawrence. (rpt 2003. new york. the feminist press. )
olsen herself advocated effectively on behalf of such “lost” writers as rebecca harding davis and agnes smedley, whose work she persuaded florence howe to republish as the first two recovered texts of her new feminist press. davis’ 1861 story “life in the iron mills” appeared in 1972 with a long biographical introduction by olsen, and smedley’s autobiographical novel daughter of earth, first published in 1929, came out the following year. in addition to her essays and talks, olsen developed reading lists of works by women writers which were eagerly adopted by feminist teachers of literature and the emerging field of women’s studies .
in the late 30’s and 1940’s tillie olsen was kept from writing by the burdens of raising a family and earning a living; she also became actively involved on behalf of women and children, for example as president of her pta chapter and of the california cio ladies’ auxiliary (reid 146). despite having served on government boards to assist with wartime social and economic issues, tillie was, along with jack, targeted by the fbi during the “red scare” witch hunts of the early 1950’s; both lost their jobs and lived in fear of being arrested .
olsen now began to craft stories based on her daily observations, encouraged by creative writing classes at san francisco state college and a prestigious stegner fellowship at stanford university (1955 - 56). she wrote her best known stories during this time, including “i stand here ironing, ” a mother’s anguished reflections about her troubled daughter’s childhood and her own maternal inadequacies. in 1960 olsen published “tell me a riddle, ” a novella based on her russian immigrant mother’s last illness and death. it received the o’henry prize for best american short story the following year and in 1980 was made into a film with melvin douglas and lila kedrova and directed by lee grant .
one wall of the office is covered with pictures of frida kahlo, walt whitman, the dalai lama, and olsen with novelist alice walker. in the film, walker credits olsen with
changing the landscape of feminist writing and reading ,
alluding to olsen' s role in getting the feminist press to republish forgotten works by women, among them rebecca harding davis' 1861
life in the iron mills
and agnes smedley' s 1929
daughter of earth .
olsen was nearly 50 years old when her first book, tell me a riddle, a collection of short stories, was published. its title story won the coveted o. henry prize. silences, her groundbreaking book of essays, was dedicated to historically silenced people - women, persons of color, and the working class - whose potential as writers was consumed in the hard, everyday work of maintaining human life. olsen' s work has been published in 13 languages .
hershey became close with olsen and her family in the early' 70s after being introduced to her by the filmmaker' s former partner, writer sandy boucher. they helped care for olsen as she became more infirm, and developed alzheimer' s. in the film, gloria steinem comes to visit olsen, who no longer recognizes her. steinem takes a necklace from her neck and puts it around olsen' s .
i' m going to try and make some trouble today and do the work that you inspired us to do .
she caught the narrative flow right away and carried it off to a powerful, weeping ending ,
says leo litwak, the short - story writer and retired san francisco state university professor. he didn' t know olsen but admires
tell me a riddle
and
i stand here ironing ,
the best - known pieces in olsen' s small body of work .
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“ silences will, like a room of one' s own, be quoted where there is talk of the circumstances in which literature is possible. ” (adrienne rich )
this revelatory documentary is an inspiring homage to tillie lerner olsen – a renegade, revolutionary, distinguished fiction and non - fiction writer, feminist, humanist, labor organizer and social activist. politically active, class conscious, deeply joined to the world, tillie countered the very core of american writing by immortalizing the lives of working class women and single mothers. her short stories “tell me a riddle, ” and “i stand here ironing, ” galvanized the literary world and set in motion an essential new perspective on the lives of ordinary women .
“welcome viewing for those interested in creative writing, social history, or women' s studies. ”
tillie and abe’s daughter karla was born in december, 1932. the family soon moved to california to work for the communist party. during this period tillie was torn between her writing and political activism, with her dedication to the goals of the party usually winning out. “‘when it comes to painting slogans or plastering up stickers a madness overcomes me. ’” (reid 97) despite the fact that she was courted by leftist editors who saw in her the promise of a new proletarian literature – philip rahv printed the first section of her novel (as “the iron throat”) in his partisan review – and publishers such as bennett cerf of random house, tillie did not produce more of the promised book. she stalled publishers for years, taking their advance payments and telling them she was making progress, while instead she took part in strike actions, got arrested and jailed, and wrote political brochures .
. scholars interviewed for the film claim, variously, that “tillie is credited with changing the landscape of feminist writing… writing about women’s lives, working people” and stating boldly that olsen, “recreated the american short story. ” the range and caliber of feminists who appear in the film and discuss olsen’s contribution to literature include alice walker, gloria steinem and florence howe .
though her literary output was limited in quantity, the short stories and unfinished novel of tillie olsen are considered by many to be literary masterpieces. in her fiction, essays and charismatic talks, moreover, olsen introduced themes that would become central to a generation of women readers and writers: she brought the subject of motherhood into focus as a valid topic for literary representation, even as she showed how it, along with economic “circumstances” and the restrictions imposed by race, class and sex, presented a major obstacle to women’s artistic creativity. speaking and writing during the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s about the “silences” imposed on women, racial minorities and working class writers, olsen drew on her own experience to open new perspectives on the literary canon. her impetus led to a movement to recover lost and neglected writers of the past, encouraged other women to tell their stories and made olsen herself a revered icon of the women’s movement. she also was an outspoken advocate of human rights, racial and social justice .
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a biography of
tillie lerner olsen: a renegade, revolutionary, distinguished fiction and non - fiction writer, feminist, humanist, labor organizer and social activist. politically active, class conscious, deeply joined to the world, tillie countered the very core of american writing by immortalizing the lives of working class women and single mothers... extended interviews with olsen during the last years of her life are deftly interspersed with footage from her readings, lectures and book signings as well as with archive materials and comments from notable feminists
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this documentary is perfect for classroom use, if a bit long to fit within the time - frame of a 50 minute class. it is accessible and covers a lot of information about olsen’s life, the changing political climates across her life, her activism, her literary contributions and family life. it is ultimately a sympathetic and celebratory film that is a must - buy for any educational institution that teaches women’s studies, women’s literature, feminist or gender studies, working class studies and labor relations / activism. it is specifically because olsen wrote about women’s lives and working people that this film is a solid addition to collections that support women’s and working class curricula but also because of the life she lived as a feminist and labor activist .
filmmaker ann hershey tells not only the story of olsen as a writer, but also documents her life as an activist. extended interviews with olsen during the last years of her life are deftly interspersed with footage from her readings, lectures and book signings as well as with archive materials and comments from notable feminists such as gloria steinem and alice walker. a perfect companion film in courses covering olsen’s literature, this documentary is also recommended for women’s studies, labor studies, political studies and american history courses .
olsen smiles at the camera and says ,
that will be wonderful .
this disc is a recorded dvd and may not play on all dvd players or drives .
on the road ,
tillie didn' t just sign a book. she wanted to talk to people, and it would be hours before the end of the line came ,
hershey says. olsen
looked you right in the eye and said,' tell me about yourself. what are you up to? are you writing? you' ve gotta write, because it' s your story.'
olsen10 _ 010 _ lh. jpg director ann hershey spent seven years making a documentary about tillie olsen, the famed bay area writer and activist who died a year ago. liz hafalia / the chronicle / san francisco / 1 / 8 / 08 * ann hershey * cq �2007, san francisco chronicle / liz hafalia mandatory credit for photog and san francisco chronicle. no sales - mags out. less
1 videodisc (67 min .): sound, color with black and white sequences; 4 3 / 4 in .
works republished: olsen' s
tell me a riddle
and her nonfiction book
silences
have been republished by the feminist press at the city university of new york, urltoken .
traveling with olsen around the country, to workshops and readings at american university in washington, d. c. , and louisiana state university, hershey heard countless people tell the writer how much her stories had meant to them .
nestled in the foothills of oakland, california, mills college is a nationally renowned, independent liberal arts college offering a dynamic progressive education that fosters leadership, social responsibility, and creativity to approximately 900 undergraduate women and 500 graduate women and men. since 2000, applications to mills college have more than doubled. the college ranks as one of the top colleges in the west by u. s. news & world report and one of the best 366 colleges by the princeton review .
olsen' s work spoke to people
because she was telling our stories, our family stories, writing about our grandparents, their lives and struggles ,
says hershey, who is in her 60s. other writers were dealing with those subjects, she adds ,
but there was something about tillie' s writing that was accessible to us, that made such sense and was so moving .
responsibility a film by ann hershey. imprint berkeley, calif. : persimmon tree films, [ 2008 ] physical description 1 videodisc (ca. 81 min .): sd. , col. with b & w sequences; 4 3 / 4 in .
olsen wrote almost nothing of her own during the last 25 years of her life. she kept busy reading other people' s manuscripts and writing blurbs, forewords and afterwords, says hershey, who thinks olsen was tired and
didn' t have the energy to put into her own work anymore .
but the writer remained politically engaged. she marched in anti - iraq war demonstrations, and hershey can still picture her tacking flyers onto telephone poles a year or so before she became ill .
release date 2008 production date 2007 note originally produced in 2007. production credits producer, director, editor, ann hershey. format recorded dvd (ntsc) .
“spectacularly shot…tillie reading her work will convince you she never left us. the way she wove her social activism with motherhood, aging, teaching and her fiction is an inspiration. ”
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labor historian and folklorist archie green, who did know olsen well, says
she was as good an any writer who emerged from the radical movement at that time .
but green was turned off by what he saw as
an element of self - pity
in her later work and persona and didn' t buy into the notion that
somehow the world or the system had conspired against her creativity and kept her from writing .
still ,
tillie was true to her culture and her class and she had talent .
olsen' s search for neglected women writers became the foundation of women' s studies in colleges and universities across the country. her work broadened the definition of literature, led to the reprinting of books by forgotten authors, and inspired renowned writers including alice walker, ursula le guin, maxine hong kingston, and the former late mills professor of creative writing sheila ballantyne .
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for those who do not know olsen' s work, this is a great introduction to the author' s life as well as an introduction to her written work and its importance to the second wave feminist movement (s). though she was radicalized through her work with socialist and labor movements, the documentary shows her legacy to be her writing about women, especially her collection of short stories
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... my conflict - to reconcile work with life... time it festered and congested postponed deferred and once started up again the insane desire, like an aroused woman…. conscious of the creative abilities within me, more than i can encompass... 1953 - 54: i keep on dividing myself and flow apart, i who want to run in one river and become great…. (reid 190) .
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tillie olsen : a heart in action is a 2007 documentary film directed and produced by ann hershey on the life and literary influence of tillie olsen , the u.s. writer best known for the books tell me a riddle ( 1961 ) and yonnondio : from the thirties ( 1974 ) . the film includes extensive interviews with olsen and with prominent fans of her work , including writers alice walker and florence howe and feminist political leader gloria steinem . 
tillie olsen: a heart in action is a 2007 documentary film directed and produced by ann hershey on the life and literary influence of tillie olsen, the u.s. writer best known for the books tell me a riddle (1961) and yonnondio: from the thirties (1974). the film includes extensive interviews with olsen and with prominent fans of her work, including writers alice walker and florence howe and feminist political leader gloria steinem.
tillie olsen: a heart in action is a 2007 documentary film directed and produced by ann hershey on the life and literary influence of tillie olsen, the u.s. writer best known for the books tell me a riddle (1961) and yonnondio: from the thirties (1974). the film includes extensive interviews with olsen and with prominent fans of her work, including writers alice walker and florence howe and feminist political leader gloria steinem.