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Langston Hughes: the dreamkeeper
- Title
- Langston Hughes: the dreamkeeper [videorecording] / Robert Chapman; New York Center for Visual History; a presentation of South Carolina Educational Television.
- Publication
- Santa Barbara, CA : Intellimation, 1988.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | C.1 | VHS | By appointment only | VTH 1311 L C.1 C.1 | Offsite |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., b&w/col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- This program combines archival footage, photographs and interviews to present a comprehensive view of the life of poet, Langston Hughes whose work reflected the problems, cares and dignity of black people. The film chronicles his Midwestern childhood, his life in New York as a participant in the Harlem Renaissance and his travels to Paris, Africa and the Soviet Union. Hughes' personal reminiscences are supplemented by those of the late James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks and the poet's biographer Arnold Rampersad who details Hughes' youthful involvement with leftist ideology, the impact of the various wars on his work, and his complex relationship with black radicalism in the sixties. The musical and theatrical attributes of Hughes' poetry are illustrated through performances by Dianne McIntyre, Novella Nelson, and Roscoe Orman.
- Series Statement
- (Voices and visions)
- Uniform Title
- Voices & visions (Television program)
- Subjects
- Credits (note)
- Director, St. Clair Bourne.
- Title
- Langston Hughes: the dreamkeeper [videorecording] / Robert Chapman; New York Center for Visual History; a presentation of South Carolina Educational Television.
- Imprint
- Santa Barbara, CA : Intellimation, 1988.
- Series
- (Voices and visions)
- Credits
- Director, St. Clair Bourne.
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- Added Author
- Bourne, St. Clair, 1943-2007, film director.New York Center for Visual History, Inc.
- Added Title
- Voices & visions (Television program)
- Branch Call Number
- VTH 1311 L