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Surname Viêt given name Nam / film by Trinh T. Minh-ha ; directed, written, edited and translated by Trinh T. Minh-ha ; partial funding by the Rockefeller Foundation ... [and others].
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Mai, Thu Vân, Selections, English., author.
- Language:
- English
- Vietnamese
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Vietnam--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Vietnamese Americans.
- Vietnamese Americans--Social conditions.
- Vietnam.
- Social conditions.
- Women--Vietnam--Interviews.
- Women--United States--Social conditions.
- United States.
- Women--United States--Interviews.
- Vietnamese Americans--Interviews.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Women.
- Folk songs, Vietnamese.
- Vietnam--Social conditions.
- Mai, Thu Vân--Film adaptations.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Feminist films.
- Film adaptations.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Women Make Movies, [2005]
- Language Note:
- In English and Vietnamese or in Vietnamese with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Trinh T. Minh-ha's film looks at the many faces of culture of Vietnamese women as seen in staged interviews, dance footage, and manipulated archival images. Also questions the politics of interviewing and the problems of translation in filmmaking.
- Participant:
- Tran Thi Hien, Khien Lai, Ngo Kim Nhuy, Tran Thi Bich Yen, Lan Trinh, Sue Whitfield.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Kathleen Beeler; folk poetry sung by Ngoc Tu, with voices of Lan Trinh and Trinh T. Minh-ha; rhythmic improvisation on drum and solo of the dan kim by Tran Van Khe, with spoons and woodblock by Tran Quang Hai and Tran Thi Thuy Ngoc; excerpts of folksong "Gian ma thuong" by Thu Hien; excerpts of "A Lullaby" and "Song of the boat people" sung by Sister Phuong, written by Thich Nhat Hanh.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1989.
- "Interviews in Viet Nam by Mai Thu Van, excerpted and translated from her book Vietnam, un people des voix ... [and other sources]."--Closing frames.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 63145731
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