Lorraine Hansberry, sighted eyes, feeling heart
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Lorraine Hansberry, sighted eyes, feeling heart
Language
eng
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videorecording
Main title
Lorraine Hansberry
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Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2017
Runtime
117
Sub title
sighted eyes, feeling heart
Summary
This documentary sheds valuable light on all aspects of Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, including the daunting challenge of securing investment and a venue for this production about a working class Black family, the casting process, artistic debates and finally its public reception. The film features interviews with the play's original cast members, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett, Jr. and Glynn Turman, director Lloyd Richards, producer Phil Rose, supporter Harry Belafonte as well as writer Amiri Baraka along with excerpts from the 1961 Hollywood movie. Additionally the film reveals how central feminism was to her ideas and boldly acknowledges (using her diary entries) her same gender relationships and private lesbian identity before the appearance of the gay rights movement
Technique
live action
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- Documentary films
- Race relations
- American drama -- 20th century
- African American dramatists
- Women dramatists
- Women dramatists -- 20th century
- Dramatists, American
- Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Drama
- Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
- African American theater
- African American dramatists -- Biography -- 20th century
- Romance films
- American drama
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- Contributor5
- Genre1
- Subject13
- Documentary films
- Race relations
- American drama -- 20th century
- African American dramatists
- Women dramatists
- Women dramatists -- 20th century
- Dramatists, American
- Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Drama
- Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
- African American theater
- African American dramatists -- Biography -- 20th century
- Romance films
- American drama
- Content1
- Distributor2
- resource.filmdirector1