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Chameleon Street
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (95 min.)
- Distribution:
- New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles Arbelos Films 2023
- Summary:
- Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival-yet criminally underseen for over three decades-Chameleon Street recounts the improbable but true story of Michigan con man Douglas Street, the titular "chameleon" who successfully impersonated his way up the socioeconomic ladder by posing as a magazine reporter, an Ivy League student, a respected surgeon, and a corporate lawyer. Elevated by a dexterous performance and daring direction from multi-hyphenate actor-writer-director Wendell B. Harris Jr., the film pins a lens on race, class and performance in American identity, which has lost none of its relevance. At once piercingly funny and aesthetically mischievous, Chameleon Street is a "lost masterpiece of Black American cinema" (BFI) long overdue to take its rightful place in the independent film canon
- Participant:
- Amina Fakir, Angela Leslie, Wendell B. Harris Jr.
- Credits:
- Wendell B. Harris Jr., filmmaker
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen
- OCLC:
- 1402188382
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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