| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file (84 min.)) : .flv file, sound, black and white and color |
| Summary |
Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (*Their Eyes Were Watching God*), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. This definitive film biography, eighteen years in the making, portrays Zora in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial but always fiercely original. ZORA NEALE HURSTON: JUMP AT THE SUN intersperses insights from leading scholars and rare footage of the rural South (some of it shot by Zora herself) with re-enactments of a revealing 1943 radio interview. Hurston biographer, Cheryl Wall, traces Zora's unique artistic vision back to her childhood in Eatonville, Florida, the first all-black incorporated town in the U.S. There Zora was surrounded by proud, self-sufficient, self-governing black people, deeply immersed in African American folk traditions. Her father, a Baptist preacher, carpenter and three times mayor, reminded Zora every Sunday morning that ordinary black people could be powerful poets. Her mother encouraged her to "jump at de' sun," never to let being black and a woman stand in the way of her dreams |
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Title from title frames |
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Film |
| Credits |
Editor, Marian Sears Hunter ; original score, Don Vappie |
| Performer |
Narrator: S. Epatha Merkerson ; commentators: Cheryl Wall, Dorothy West, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
| Cast |
Kim Brockington, Marceline Hugot |
| Event |
Originally produced as an episode of the PBS television series American Masters in 2008 |
| Notes |
In English |
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Optional closed-captioning in English |
| Subject |
Hurston, Zora Neale.
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| SUBJECT |
Hurston, Zora Neale fast |
| Subject |
African American women authors -- Biography
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Folklorists -- United States -- Biography
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Folklore.
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African Americans.
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Women.
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African American.
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folklore (culture-related concept)
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women (female humans)
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African American women authors
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Authors, American
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Folklorists
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United States
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documentary film.
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Biographies
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Documentary television programs
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Internet videos
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Nonfiction television programs
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired
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Documentary television programs.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Internet videos.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentary films.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Documentaires.
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Documentaires télévisés.
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Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Pollard, Sam, film director.
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Andersen, Kristy, producer, screenwriter.
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Merkerson, S. Epatha, 1952- narrator.
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Hunter, Marian, editor of moving image work.
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Vappie, Don, 1956- composer (expression)
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Wall, Cheryl A., commentator.
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West, Dorothy, 1907-1998, commentator.
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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., commentator.
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Walker, Alice, 1944- commentator.
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Angelou, Maya, commentator.
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Brockington, Kim, actor.
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Hugot, Marceline, actor.
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Bay Bottom News (Firm), film distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), publisher.
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