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The signifyin' works of Marlon Riggs / written, directed, and produced by Marlon T. Riggs.
LIBRA DVD E185.625 .S546 2021 disc 1-3 + insert
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Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 034 075 disc 1-3 + booklet
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- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Blackberri, author, performer.
- Brown, Jericho, author, performer.
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1082.
- The Criterion collection ; 1082
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Riggs, Marlon T.
- Gay men--United States--Biography.
- Gay men.
- United States.
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients--United States--Biography.
- AIDS (Disease).
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans.
- Homosexuality--United States.
- Homosexuality.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biographical films.
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Experimental films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 3 videodiscs (337 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.. + 1 booklet (43 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
- stamping
- Edition:
- Three-DVD special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full frame (1.33:1 aspect ratio) presentation; , Dolby stereo; Dolby mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby Digital
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- A collection of documentary films directed by Marlon Riggs which discuss the experiences of black homosexual men living in the United States in the late twentieth century.
- Employing a mix of documentary, performance, poetry, and music in his work, the transformative filmmaker Marlon Riggs was an unapologetic gay Black man who defied a culture of silence and shame to speak his truth with resounding joy and conviction.
- Contents:
- Disc 1: Ethnic notions (1986) ; Tongues untied (1989) ; Affirmations (1990) ; Anthem (1991)
- Disc 2: Color adjustment (1992) ; Non, je ne regrette rien = No regret (1993) ; Black is... black ain't (1995)
- Disc 3 : Supplements.
- Participant:
- Essex Hemphill, Reginald T. Jackson, Blackberri, Angela Davis, Brian Freeman, Jericho Brown.
- Credits:
- Editors, Deborah Hoffmann, Christiane Badgley.
- Notes:
- Originally released as motion pictures in 1986-1995.
- Full screen 1.33:1.
- Full program credits and essay by critic K. Austin Collins in booklet.
- For private home use only.
- Special features: four new programs featuring editor Christiane Badgley; performers Brian Freeman, Reginald T. Jackon, and Bill T. Jones; filmmakers Cheryl Dunye and Rodney Evans; poet Jericho Brown; film and media scholar Racquel Gates; and sociologist Herman Gray; excerpts from a 1992 interview with director Marlon Riggs; brief inroductions by Riggs to Tongues untied and Color adjustment; "Long train running : the story of the Oakland blues", Riggs' University of California, Berkeley graduate thesis film; "I shall not be removed : the life of Marlon Riggs", a documentary by Karen Everett that features interviews with Riggs; Kleiman; filmmaker Isaac Julien; African American studies scholar Barbara Christian; several of Riggs's longtime friends and collaborators; and members of his family.
- Contains:
- Container of: Ethnic notions (Motion picture).
- Container of: Tongues untied (Motion picture).
- Container of: Affirmations (Motion picture : 1990).
- Container of: Anthem (Motion picture : 1991).
- Container of: Color adjustment (Motion picture).
- Container of: Non, je ne regrette rien (Motion picture).
- Container of: Black is, Black ain't (Motion picture).
- Container of: I shall not be removed (Motion picture).
- Container of: Long train running (Motion picture)
- ISBN:
- 1681438453
- 9781681438450
- OCLC:
- 1256659104
- Publisher Number:
- 715515260213
- 00715515260213 gtin-14
- CC3263D Criterion Collection
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