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Video cassette

Ralph Ellison : an American journey

Call Number

  • DVD 813 E (CEN)

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Performers

Narrated by Andre Braugher.

Publication Information

[United States] : California Newsreel, c2004.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This is the first documentary on one of the most gifted and intellectually provocative authors of modern American literature. It establishes Ellison as a central figure in contemporary debates over art, politics, race and nationhood. The film presents the first scenes ever filmed from Ellison's landmark novel, Invisible man. This symbolic, ironic, and often surreal novel describes a quest much like Ellison's own to invent an identity independent of that imposed by society. Interviews with a range of luminary intellectuals reopen the debate about the role of the Black artist, and about Ellison as a focus of criticism and as an icon of American literature.

Notes

DVD format.

Videodisc release of an episode from the public television series, American masters.

Co-presented by the National Black Programming Consortium and ITVS.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Not rated.

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