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Zora Neale Hurston : jump at the sun

DVD

2008

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Zora Neale Hurston : jump at the sun / producer and writer, Kristy Andersen ; director, Sam Pollard ; co-produced by Bay Bottom News and Thirteen/WNET's American Masters.
Edition:	Standard format.
Publisher, Date:	[Tampa, Fla.] : Bay Bottom News, ©2008.
Description:	1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. stamping digital optical NTSC video file DVD video region 1
Summary:	A biography of African American author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, the first black woman to enter the American literary canon.
Subjects:	Hurston, Zora Neale. Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography. Folklorists -- United States -- Biography. African American authors -- Biography.
Genre:	Documentary films. Biographical films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Biographies.
Other Author:	Andersen, Kristy. Pollard, Sam. Brockington, Kim. Hugot, Marceline. Merkerson, S. Epatha, 1952- Hunter, Marian. Vappie, Don, 1956- Bay Bottom News (Firm) WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Other Title:	Jump at the sun American masters (Television program)
Notes:	Special features: Hurston's anthropological field footage from 1927 and 1940; selected audio from Hurston's musical expedition with Alan Lomax in 1935; outtakes of Kim Brockington as Zora Neale Hurston; outtakes of interviews from the film; closed captioned (feature film only). Editor, Marian Sears Hunter ; original score, Don Vappie. Kim Brockington, Marceline Hugot. Narrator, S. Epatha Merkerson. DVD ; NTSC format, region 1 ; LPCM stereo. Public performance prohibited; not licensed for classroom use. In English. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Contents:	Eatonville -- On to Harlem -- Queen of Harlem Renaissance -- Searching for folktales -- Voodoo/Hoodoo culture -- Mule bone -- JJonah's gourd vine -- Mules and men -- Celebrating common folk -- The magic of black language -- Lomax/Documenting black music -- Their eyes were watching god -- Filming sanctified religion -- Dust tracks on a road -- Out of step with civil rights -- Rediscovery and praise.
Other Number:	312702714
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	1032176
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Call Number:	DVD BIO Hurston

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