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Big Mama
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This Academy Award-winning documentary profiles a devoted grandmother's struggle to raise her grandson under the watchful eye of a complex and unsympathetic social welfare system. The film follows ...
This Academy Award-winning documentary profiles a devoted grandmother's struggle to raise her grandson under the watchful eye of a complex and unsympathetic social welfare system. The film follows Viola Dee for 18 months as the 90-year-old cares for 9-year-old Walter in South Central Los Angeles. While contending with her own declining health and Walter's behavioral and psychiatric problems, Dee fights-with limited success-to keep Walter out of foster care. Called "a great teaching tool" by the Council on Social Work Education, the video brings to light the challenges and concerns of the all-too-common phenomenon of elderly people parenting orphaned or abandoned grandchildren.
Details
- Creator
- California Newsreel (Firm)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2012], c2000
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (35 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn820954314
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on September 12, 2012.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Closed-captioned.
- Introduction (1:08) -- Walter's Background (1:47) -- Grandmother's Care for Walter (1:55) -- Walter's Progress (2:15) -- School (1:51) -- Viola's Heart Attack (2:20) -- Walter Becomes Hostile (2:38) -- Walter's Arson (2:09) -- Walter at Psychiatric Hospital (1:25) -- Psychiatrists Take Walter Away (1:32) -- Viola's Birthday (2:21) -- Visiting Walter (2:09) -- Walter Temporarily Back Home (1:30) -- Visit to Residential Care Facility (2:02) -- Admissions Criteria (3:03) -- Admitted to School (2:42) -- Walter's Reluctance (1:10) -- Walter Moves In (2:40) -- Epilogue & Credits: Big Mama (2:58) -- Credits: Big Mama (2:01)