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The signifyin' works of Marlon Riggs

Title: The signifyin' works of Marlon Riggs
Publication: New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2021]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	C.1 DISC 1 OF 3	Text	By appointment only	DVDR 2308 S C.1 DISC 1 OF 3 C.1 DISC 1 OF 3	Performing Arts Research Collections - Reserve Film and Video
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	C.1 DISC 2 OF 3	Text	By appointment only	DVDR 2308 S C.1 DISC 2 OF 3 C.1 DISC 2 OF 3	Performing Arts Research Collections - Reserve Film and Video
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	C.1 DISC 3 OF 3	Text	By appointment only	DVDR 2308 S C.1 DISC 3 OF 3 C.1 DISC 3 OF 3	Performing Arts Research Collections - Reserve Film and Video

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3 videodiscs (337 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

A collection of documentary films directed by Marlon Riggs which discuss the experiences of black homosexual men living in the United States in the late twentieth century.
Ethnic notions: Covers more than one hundred years of United States history, which traces the evolution of deeply rooted stereotypes that have influenced anti-Black prejudice. Some caricatures have played a role in political and social conflicts concerning race.
Tongues united: Gives voice to communities of black gay men, presenting their cultures and perspectives on the world as they confront racism, homophobia, and marginalization.
Affirmations: An exploration of Black gay male desires and dreams.
Anthem: An experimental music video politicizing the homoeroticism of African-American men.
Color adjustment: A study of prejudice and perception traces over forty years of race relations in America through the lens of prime time TV entertainment. Revisiting such popular hits as Amos and Andy, Beulah, The Nat King Cole Show, Julia, I Spy, Good Times and Roots, viewers see how bitter racial conflict was absorbed into the non-controversial formats of the prime time series.
Non, je ne regrette rien: Through music, poetry and self-disclosure, five sero-positive Black gay men speak of their individual confrontation with AIDS.
Black is... black ain't: American culture has stereotyped black Americans for centuries. Equally devastating, the late Marlon Riggs argued, have been the definitions of "blackness" African Americans impose upon one another which contain and reduce the black experience
Long train running: Draws on a wealth of archival materials to trace the evolution of the Oakland blues, a unique musical style developed by Black shipyard workers in the Bay Area in the 1940s and '50s.
I shall not be removed : the life of Marlon Riggs: Provides a memorial to Marlon Riggs, the gifted, gay, black filmmaker who died from AIDS in 1994. It traces his development from a precocious childhood in the close-knit African American community of Fort Worth, Texas, through his political awakening at Harvard, to his final years as a courageous advocate for stigmatized people everywhere.

Uniform Title

Ethnic notions (Motion picture)
Tongues untied (Motion picture)
Affirmations (Motion picture : 1990)
Anthem (Motion picture : 1991)
Color adjustment (Motion picture)
Non, je ne regrette rien (Motion picture)
Black is, Black ain't (Motion picture)
I shall not be removed (Motion picture)
Long train running (Motion picture : 1981)

Alternative Title

Signifying works of Marlon Riggs

Subject

Genre/Form

Experimental films.
Biographical films.
Biographies.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Gay films.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Short films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Note

Originally released as motion pictures in 1986-1995.
Special features: Introduction [to Riggs] (recorded in 2020 and featuring filmmakers Vivian Kleiman and Shikeith, and Ashley Clark, curatorial director of the Criterion Collection); Long train running: the story of the Oakland blues (Rigg's graduate thesis film (1981, 29 min.)); In the life: Marlon Riggs (excerpts from a 1992 interview with director Marlon Riggs); four new programs featuring editor Christiane Badgley; performers, Brian Freeman, Reginald T. Jackon and Bill T. Jones; filmmakers Cheryl Dunye and Rodney Evans; poet Jericho Brown; film and media scholar Racquel Gates; and sociologist Herman Gray; brief introductions by Riggs to Tongues untied and Color adjustment; I shall not be removed: the life of Marlon Riggs (a documentary by Karen Everett that features interviews with Riggs (1996, 60 min.)); plus, in booklet: an essay by film critic K. Austin Collins.

Credits (note)

Editors, Deborah Hoffmann, Christiane Badgley.

Contents

Disc 1. Ethnic notions (1986, 58 min.) -- Tongues untied (1989, 55 min.) -- Affirmations (1990, 10 min.) -- Anthem (1991, 8 min.) --
Disc 2. Color adjustment (1992, 80 min.) -- Non, je ne regrette rien ( No regret) (1993, 38 min.) -- Black is... black ain't (1995, 87 min.) --
Disc 3. Supplements.

Title

The signifyin' works of Marlon Riggs

Publisher

New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2021]

Edition

Three-DVD special edition.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Performer

Blackberri, Barbara Christian, Angela Davis, Brian Freeman, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Essex Hemphill, Bill T. Jones, Marlon Riggs, Patricia A. Turner, Reginald T. Jackson, Jericho Brown.

Credits

Editors, Deborah Hoffmann, Christiane Badgley.

Added Author

Riggs, Marlon T., film director, screenwriter, film producer, onscreen participant.

Hoffmann, Deborah, editor of moving image work.

Badgley, Christiane, editor of moving image work.

Blackberri, author, performer.

Christian, Barbara, 1943-2000, onscreen participant.

Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- onscreen participant.

Freeman, Brian, 1955- performer.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., onscreen participant.

Hemphill, Essex, onscreen participant.

Jones, Bill T., performer.

Jackson, Reginald, performer.

Brown, Jericho, author, performer.

Collins, K. Austin, writer of supplemental material.

Turner, Patricia A. (Patricia Ann), 1955- onscreen participant.

Everett, Karen, 1961- director of supplemental material.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Added Title

Container of (work) : Ethnic notions (Motion picture)

Container of (work) : Tongues untied (Motion picture)

Container of (work) : Affirmations (Motion picture : 1990)

Container of (work) : Anthem (Motion picture : 1991)

Container of (work) : Color adjustment (Motion picture)

Container of (work) : Non, je ne regrette rien (Motion picture)

Container of (work) : Black is, Black ain't (Motion picture)

Container of (work) : I shall not be removed (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Long train running (Motion picture : 1981)

Branch Call Number

DVDR 2308 S

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