Research Catalog

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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Details

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

Subjects

• American poetry > African American authors > Drama
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 > Drama
• Feature films
• Harlem Renaissance
• African American gays

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