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Title Black theater : the Making of a Movement.

Publication Info. [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kanopy Streaming Video  Streaming Video    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 110 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
two-dimensional moving image tdi rdacontent
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online resource cr rdacarrier
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video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note Title from title frames.
Event Originally produced by California Newsreel in 1978.
Summary Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement documents the birth of a new theatre out of the Civil Rights activism of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. It is a veritable video encyclopedia of the leading figures, institutions and events of a movement that transformed the American stage. Amiri Baraka, Ossie Davis, James Earl Jones and Ntozake Shange describe their aspirations for a theatre serving the Black community. Excerpts of A Raisin in the Sun, Black Girl, Dutchman and For Colored Girls... reveal how these actors and playwrights laid the basis for the Black theater of the present. "An extraordinary documentary...A must for every contemporary theatre course." - Margaret Wilkerson, former Director, Center for Theatre Arts, U.C. Berkeley "Brilliantly captures the essence, soul and spirit of the Movement...Required viewing." - Larry Hamlin, National Black Theatre Festival.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject African American theater -- African American actors -- History -- 20th Century.
African American Authors -- History -- 20th Century.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Added Author King Jr., Woodie 1937- film director.
Jones, James Earl 1931-2024 actor.
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