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Style wars / produced by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant ; directed by Tony Silver.
LIBRA VHS GT3913.N72 N47 1983
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- Hip-hop--New York (State)--New York.
- Hip-hop.
- Breaking (Dance)--New York (State)--New York.
- Breaking (Dance).
- Graffiti--Social aspects.
- Graffiti.
- Manners and customs.
- Break dancing.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--New York (State)--New York.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Subways--New York (State)--New York.
- Subways.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Graffiti--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York.
- New York (State).
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (69 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Public Art Films, [1983]
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- A documentary exploration of aspects of the hiphop subculture of New York City as of 1982: rap, breakdancers, and primarily its young graffiti writers, showing their activities and aspirations and the social and aesthetic controversies surrounding New York graffiti. Dramatizes conflicts between graffitists and the city, as well as among the graffitists themselves.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Sam Schacht.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Burleigh Wartes ; coordinating producer, Linda Habib ; editor, Sam Pollard.
- Notes:
- "Broadcast version"--Container and cassette label.
- OCLC:
- 38929697
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