The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs
New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2021]
Format: DVD
Edition: Three-DVD special edition.
Description: 3 videodiscs (339 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.. + 1 booklet (43 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
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.
Series: Criterion collection ; 1082.
Other Authors:
Riggs, Marlon T., director, screenwriter, film producer.
Collins, K. Austin, writer of supplemental material.
Hemphill, Essex, performer.
Jackson, Reginald, performer.
Blackberri, author, performer.
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- performer.
Freeman, Brian, 1955- performer.
Brown, Jericho, author, performer.
Everett, Karen, 1961- director of supplemental material.
Riggs, Marlon T., director, screenwriter, film producer.
Collins, K. Austin, writer of supplemental material.
Hemphill, Essex, performer.
Jackson, Reginald, performer.
Blackberri, author, performer.
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- performer.
Freeman, Brian, 1955- performer.
Brown, Jericho, author, performer.
Everett, Karen, 1961- director of supplemental material.
Contents:
Disc 1: Ethnic notions (1986) ; Tongues untied (1989) ; Affirmations (1990) ; Anthem (1991) -- Disc 2: Color adjustment (1992) ; Non, je ne regrette rien = No regret (1993) ; Black is... black ain't (1995) -- Disc 3 : Supplements.
Subjects:
Riggs, Marlon T.
Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Homosexuality -- United States.
Riggs, Marlon T.
Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Homosexuality -- United States.
Target Audience: MPAA rating: Not rated.
ISBN:
1681438453
UPC: 715515260213
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DVD LGBTQ Sig | Blythewood | DVD | In |
Originally released as motion pictures in 1986-1995.
Full screen 1.33:1.
Full program credits and essay by critic K. Austin Collins in container.
Features: 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; excerpts from a 1992 interview with director Marlon Riggs; brief inroductions by Riggs to Tongues untied and Color adjustment; "Long train running : the story of the Oakland blues", Riggs' University of California, Berkeley graduate thesis film; "I shall not be removed : the life of Marlon Riggs", a documentary by Karen Everett that features interviews with Riggs; Kleiman; filmmaker Isaac Julien; African American studies scholar Barbara Christian; several of Riggs's longtime friends and collaborators; and members of his family.
Essex Hemphill, Reginald T. Jackson, Blackberri, Angela Davis
DVD, NTSC, region 1; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby monaural and stereo.
For private home use only.
Closed-captioned.
Full screen 1.33:1.
Full program credits and essay by critic K. Austin Collins in container.
Features: 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; excerpts from a 1992 interview with director Marlon Riggs; brief inroductions by Riggs to Tongues untied and Color adjustment; "Long train running : the story of the Oakland blues", Riggs' University of California, Berkeley graduate thesis film; "I shall not be removed : the life of Marlon Riggs", a documentary by Karen Everett that features interviews with Riggs; Kleiman; filmmaker Isaac Julien; African American studies scholar Barbara Christian; several of Riggs's longtime friends and collaborators; and members of his family.
Essex Hemphill, Reginald T. Jackson, Blackberri, Angela Davis
DVD, NTSC, region 1; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby monaural and stereo.
For private home use only.
Closed-captioned.