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La noire de ... = Black girl / Janus Films ; World Cinema Project ; Filmi Domirev Dakar presente ; ecrit et realise par Ousmane Sembène ; [produced by Andre Zwoboda].
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 029 672 disc 1-2 + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007, author, film director, screenwriter.
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 852.
- Criterion collection ; 852
- Language:
- English
- French
- Wolof
- Subjects (All):
- Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007--Film adaptations.
- Sembène, Ousmane.
- Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007.
- Immigrants--France--Drama.
- Immigrants.
- Household employees--Drama.
- Household employees.
- Senegalese--France--Drama.
- Senegalese.
- Suicide--Drama.
- Suicide.
- Self-esteem.
- France.
- Self-esteem--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Motion pictures, Senegalese.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet.
- DVD video 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- DVD edition.
- Other Title:
- Black girl
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In French and Wolof; optional subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD; region 1, NTSC; fullscreen (1.37:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
- digital optical monaural Dolby Digital
- fullscreen (1.37:1)
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- A young Senegalese woman moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally, into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world.
- Participant:
- M'bissine Therese Diop, Anne-Maire Jelinck, Momar Nar Sene, Robert Fontaine.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Christian Lacoste; editor, Andre Gaudier.
- Notes:
- Title from title frame.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1966.
- Based on La noire de -- / [by] Ousmane Sembène.
- Special features: excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT 20h, featuring Sembène accepting the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl; new interview with actor M'Bissine Thérèse Diop; trailer; essay by critic Ashley Clark.
- Best African Feature, Festival of Black Arts 1966 ; Grand Prize, Carthage Film Festival 1966
- Contains:
- Container of: Black girl (motion picture). Wolof.
- ISBN:
- 9781681432489
- 168143248X
- OCLC:
- 965801374
- Publisher Number:
- 715515192019
- CC2721DDVD The Criterion Collection
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