Black Girl [1966]
Available digitallyHU_OSA_00005837
Moving ImageGeneral Information
Original Title
Black Girl
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Language
French
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Language of Subtitles
English
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Published
Senegal : France : 1966.
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Physical Description
DVD-ROM (59 min.)
Contents Summary
Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the world. He made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally—into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s. (criterion)
Bibliographic Information
Note
In French with English subtitles.
Holdings
| Item Type | Current Location | Collection | Call Number | Volume Info | Shelving Location | Public Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVD-ROM | OSA Film Library | OSA Film Library | FL Record 4089 | - | - | Donation by Zsuzsa Zádori |
| DIGIFILM | OSA Film Library | OSA Film Library | FL Record 4089 | - | Audio Visual | Access Copy, MP4 format |
Black Girl [1966]
Available digitallyHU_OSA_00005837
Moving ImageGeneral Information
Director/Creator
General Information
Original Title
Black Girl
General Information
Language
French
General Information
Language of Subtitles
English
General Information
Published
Senegal : France : 1966.
General Information
Physical Description
DVD-ROM (59 min.)
Contents Summary
Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the world. He made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally—into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s. (criterion)
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Genre
Bibliographic Information
Note
In French with English subtitles.
Holdings
DVD
Item Type
DVD
Current Location
OSA Film Library
Current Location
OSA Film Library
Call Number
FL Record 4089
Volume Info
-
Shelving Location
-
Public Note
Donation by Zsuzsa Zádori
Digital Film