The Cancer Journals Revisited.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Lin, Lana, film director.

Women Make Movies (Firm), distributor.

London Hilfers Family Endowment for the Study of Women in Cinema and Media Arts.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Breast--Cancer--Patients--United States.

Breast.

Breast--Cancer--Patients.

Women poets, American--Biography.

Women poets, American.

African American women poets.

United States.

Women--United States--Social conditions.

Women.

Social conditions.

African American women poets--Biography.

Poetry.

Women's studies.

Artists.

Documentary films.

Genre:

Biographies.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): .flv file, sound

Place of Publication:

Women Make Movies, 2018.

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

digital

video file MPEG-4 Flash

Summary:

THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED is prompted by the question of what it means to re-visit and re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde's classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience today. At the invitation of filmmaker Lana Lin, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, twenty-seven writers, artists, activists, health care advocates, and current and former patients recite Lorde's manifesto aloud on camera, collectively dramatizing it and producing an oration for the screen. The film is both a critical commentary and a poetic reflection upon the precarious conditions of survival within the intimate and politicized public sphere of illness.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Film.

In Process Record.

Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 2018.

Title from title screen.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the London Hilfers Family Endowment for the Study of Women in Cinema and Media Arts.

OCLC:

1240164206

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.