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Tongues untied / producer/director, Marlon Riggs.
Annenberg Circulation Desk DVD PS3568.I364 T662 2006
Available
LIBRA DVD 018 211
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American gay people--Drama.
- African American gay people.
- African Americans--Race identity--Drama.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Drama.
- African Americans--Sexual behavior--Drama.
- Homosexuality--United States--Drama.
- Homosexuality.
- African Americans--Sexual behavior.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Experimental films.
- Documentary films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Frameline, [2006]
- System Details:
- DVD; region 1.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- In an experimental amalgam of rap music, street poetry, documentary film, and dance, a gay African-American man expresses what it is like to be gay and black in the United States. Although he deals with social ostracism and fear of AIDS, he affirms the beauty and significance of the gay black man.
- Participant:
- Marlon T. Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Ben Callet.
- Credits:
- Photographer, editor, Marlon T. Riggs.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1989.
- Special features: interview with the director; interview with spoken word/rap artist Juba Kalamka; outtakes from the film.
- OCLC:
- 187711767
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