Black Girl
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2017.
Format: DVD
Edition: Criterion collection.
Description: 2 videodiscs (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
A young Senegalese woman moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally, into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world.
Series: Criterion collection ; 852.
Other Authors:
Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007, film director, screenwriter.
Zwobada, André, film producer.
Lacoste, Christian, director of photography.
Gaudier, André, editor of moving image work.
Diop, Mbissine Thérèse, actor.
Jelinck, Anne-Marie, actor.
Sene, Momar Nar, actor.
Fontaine, Robert, 1924-1973, actor.
Motion picture adapation of (work): Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007. Noire de ...
Janus Films.
World Cinema Project.
Films Domirev (Firm), presenter, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007, film director, screenwriter.
Zwobada, André, film producer.
Lacoste, Christian, director of photography.
Gaudier, André, editor of moving image work.
Diop, Mbissine Thérèse, actor.
Jelinck, Anne-Marie, actor.
Sene, Momar Nar, actor.
Fontaine, Robert, 1924-1973, actor.
Motion picture adapation of (work): Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007. Noire de ...
Janus Films.
World Cinema Project.
Films Domirev (Firm), presenter, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Subjects:
Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007 -- Film adaptations.
Immigrants -- France -- Drama.
Household employees -- France -- Drama.
Senegalese -- France -- Drama.
Women, Black -- France -- Social conditions -- Drama.
Suicide -- Drama.
Self-esteem -- Drama.
Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007 -- Film adaptations.
Immigrants -- France -- Drama.
Household employees -- France -- Drama.
Senegalese -- France -- Drama.
Women, Black -- France -- Social conditions -- Drama.
Suicide -- Drama.
Self-esteem -- Drama.
ISBN:
9781681432489
UPC: 715515192019
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
DVD FOREIGN Black | Main (Downtown) | First Level, DVD | In |
DVD FOREIGN Black | Northeast Indoors | DVD | Out (Due: 4/27/2024) |
DVD FOREIGN Black | St. Andrews Indoors | DVD | In |
Videorecording.
Special features on disc one: new 4k digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna ; new interview with actor M'Bissine Thérèse Diop (12 min.) ; On Black girl: a new interview with filmmaker and cutural theorist Manthia Diawara (22 min.) ; alternate color sequence ; excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT de 20h, featuring Sembène discussing his win of the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl ; trailer ; New English subtitle translation ; on disc two: 4K restoration of the short film Borom sarret (20 min.), director Ousmane Sembène's acclaimed 1963 debut ; Sembène: the making of African cinema (61 min.), a 1994 documentary about the filmmaker by Manthia Diawara and Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo; On Ousmane Sembène: a new interview with scholar Samba Godjigo (20 min.) ; in folded insert: essay by critic Ashley Clark.
M'bissine Therese Diop.
DVD.
French dialogue; English subtitles.
Best African Feature, Festival of Black Arts 1966 ; Grand Prize, Carthage Film Festival 1966
Special features on disc one: new 4k digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna ; new interview with actor M'Bissine Thérèse Diop (12 min.) ; On Black girl: a new interview with filmmaker and cutural theorist Manthia Diawara (22 min.) ; alternate color sequence ; excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT de 20h, featuring Sembène discussing his win of the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl ; trailer ; New English subtitle translation ; on disc two: 4K restoration of the short film Borom sarret (20 min.), director Ousmane Sembène's acclaimed 1963 debut ; Sembène: the making of African cinema (61 min.), a 1994 documentary about the filmmaker by Manthia Diawara and Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo; On Ousmane Sembène: a new interview with scholar Samba Godjigo (20 min.) ; in folded insert: essay by critic Ashley Clark.
M'bissine Therese Diop.
DVD.
French dialogue; English subtitles.
Best African Feature, Festival of Black Arts 1966 ; Grand Prize, Carthage Film Festival 1966