Zora Neale Hurston : claiming a space

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Full Title:: Zora Neale Hurston : claiming a space / American Experience Films ; produced by Randall MacLowry, Tracy Heather Strain ; written and directed by Tracy Heather Strain ; senior series producer, Susan Bellows ; a Film Posse, Inc. production for American Experience

Additional Author/Creators:: Strain, Tracy Heather, television director, screenwriter, and television producer
MacLowry, Randall, television producer
Bellows, Susan, television producer
Hurston, Zora Neale, on-screen participant and cinematographer
Williams, Vanessa, 1963-, narrator
Turpin, Bahni, voice actor
McClaurin, Irma, on-screen participant
Patterson, Tiffany Ruby, 1946-, on-screen participant
Baker, Lee D., 1966-, on-screen participant
King, Charles, 1967-, on-screen participant
Film Posse (Firm), production company
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), broadcaster
PBS Distribution (Firm), publisher

Genre:: DVD-Video discs
Documentary television programs
Biographical television programs
Nonfiction television programs
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
Subjects:: Hurston, Zora Neale
Authors, American--20th century--Biography
African American women--Southern States--Biography
Folklorists--United States--Biography
Civil rights workers--United States--Biography

Summary:: Author Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work challenges assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had been defined by the field in the 19th century. She gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, but Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people, an unusual practice at the time, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.
Language:: English
Language Note:: In English.
Accessibility Note:: auditory captons
visual audio description
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
English described video.
Physical Type/Description:: 1 videodisc (appoximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Technical Note:: DVD; widescreen; stereo; region 1, NTSC.
General Note:: Wide screen.
Documentary.
Participant/Performer Note:: Narrator, Vanessa Williams ; voice of Zora Neale Hurston, Bahni Turpin ; with Irma McClaurin, Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Charles King, Lee D. Baker, María Eugenia Cotera, Eve Dunbar, Carla Kaplan, Daphne Lamothe,
Creation/Production Credits Note:: Editor, Mark Dugas ; music, Daniel J. Bowen ; cinematography, Nikki Bramley.
Date/Time and Place of an Event:: Originally broadcast on the PBS network in 2023.