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Paris is burning / Prestige ; Off White Productions ; produced and directed by Jennie Livingston.
LIBRA VHS HQ76.2.U52 N556 1992
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay people--New York (State)--New York.
- Dance--Competitions--New York (State)--New York.
- Cross-dressers--New York (State)--New York.
- Homosexuality in motion pictures.
- Cross-dressers.
- Dance--Competitions.
- Gay people.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (76 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Fox Lorber Home Video ; Los Angeles : [Distributed by] Orion Home Video, [1992]
- System Details:
- VHS ; hi-fi.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- A documentary about the young homosexual men of Harlem who originated "voguing" and turned these stylized dance competitions into glittering expressions of fierce personal pride. A story of street-wise urban survival, gay self-affirmation, and the pursuit of a desperate dream.
- Participant:
- Pepper Labeija, Kim Pendavis, Freddie Pendavis, Dorian Corey, Venus Xtravaganza, Willi Ninja, Octavia St. Laurent.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Paul Gibson; editor, Jonathan Oppenheim; executive producers, Nigel Finch (BBC Television, London), Davis Lacy (WNYC Television, New York)
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1990.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- ISBN:
- 157252085X
- OCLC:
- 36551806
- Publisher Number:
- FLV 1266 Fox Lorber Home Video
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