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Emperor Jones
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Emperor Jones--Film adaptations.
- O'Neill, Eugene.
- African American actors--Caribbean Area--Drama.
- African American actors.
- Emperors--Caribbean Area--Drama.
- Emperors.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 105 minutes) digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2014
- System Details:
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- Of all Paul Robeson's eleven starring film performances, by far his most iconic was his breakthrough in the big-screen adaptation of Eugene O'Neill'sThe Emperor Jones (1933). He was already a legend for his stage incarnation of Brutus Jones, a Pullman porter who powers his way to the rule of a Caribbean island, but with this, his first sound-era film role, his regal image was married to his booming voice for eternity. With The Emperor Jones, Robeson became the first African-American leading man in mainstream movies and, he said, gained a deeper understanding of cinema's potential to change racial misconceptions. Previously censored,The Emperor Jones is presented here in its most complete form
- Notes:
- Vendor supplied data
- Originally produced by Criterion Collection/Janus Films in 1933
- OCLC:
- 897772230
- Publisher Number:
- 1113119 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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