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Title Looking for Langston / a film by Isaac Julien
Published London : BFI, [2005?]

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  791.4372 Jul/Lfl  AVAILABLE
Description 1 videodisc (DVD) (45 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Summary A meditation on the life and work of black poet Langston Hughes. Using original footage of the Cotton Club in the 1920's and period blues numbers, it examines attitudes toward homosexuality then and now
Notes Originally made as a motion picture: London : Sankofa Film & Video,1989
"A meditation on Langston Hughes (1902-1967) and the Harlem Renaissance with the poetry of Essex Hemphill and Bruce Nugent."
Special features: Full commentary with Isaac Julien and Nina Kellgren ; short film: Portrait in blue : Essex Hemphill (Isaac Julien, 2005) : "First and last words : Essex Hemphill and Larry Duckette in conversation" - audio recording of a 1990 radio programme ; Photo gallery ; 48-page illustrated booklet
Credits Written and directed by Isaac Julien ; produced by Nadine Marsh-Edwards ; director of photography Nina Kellgren
Audience Rated 15
Notes DVD, region 2, PAL
Optional subtitles for the hearing-impaired
Subject Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Harlem Renaissance.
Genre/Form Video recordings.
Author Julien, Isaac.
Marsh-Edwards, Nadine.
Kellgren, Nina.
Hemphill, Essex.
Nugent, Bruce, 1906-1987.
Sankofa Film & Video.
British Film Institute.
Other Titles Portrait in blue : Essex Hemphill