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Looking for Langston

Title
Looking for Langston / producer, Nadine Marsh-Edwards ; written and directed by Isaac Julien.
Publication
[New York] : Water Bearer Films, [1992], ©1992.

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Additional Authors
  • Julien, Isaac.
  • Marsh-Edwards, Nadine.
  • Ellison, Ben.
  • Baidoo, Matthew.
  • Mogaji, Akim.
  • Williams, Dencil.
  • Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
  • Hemphill, Essex.
  • Nugent, Bruce, 1906-1987.
  • Als, Hilton.
Description
1 videocassette (approximately 47 min.) : sound, black and white; 1/2 in.
Summary
A meditation on the Black poet Langston Hughes and an attempt to reclaim him as an important Black gay in American culture. Original footage of the Cotton Club in the 1920's and period blues music set the scene for this examination of attitudes towrd homosexuality then and now.
Alternative Title
Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston
Subject
  • Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 > Drama
  • American poetry > African American authors > Drama
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • African American gays
  • Feature films
Note
  • "A meditation on Langston Hughes (1902-1967) and the Harlem Renaissance : with the poetry of Essex Hemphill and Bruce Nugent."
System Details (note)
  • VHS format.
OCLC
  • 39712037
  • ocm39712037
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries