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Title Zora Neale Hurston : jump at the sun / producer and writer, Kristy Andersen ; director, Sam Pollard ; co-produced by Bay Bottom News and Thirteen/WNET's American Masters.

Publication Info. [San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, [2008]
©2008

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 Moore Video  PS3515.U789 Z98 2008    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition Standard format.
Description 1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
digital
optical
video file
DVD video
System Details DVD.
Cast Kim Brockington, Marceline Hugot.
Performer Narrator, S. Epatha Merkerson.
Credits Editor, Marian Sears Hunter ; original score, Don Vappie.
Summary A biography of African American author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, the first black woman to enter the American literary canon.
Contents Eatonville -- On to Harlem -- Queen of Harlem renaissance -- Searching for folktales -- Voodoo, hoodoo culture -- Mule bone -- Jonah's gourd vine -- Mules and men -- Celebrating common folk -- The magic of black language -- Lomax/Documenting black music -- Their eyes were watching God -- Filming sanctified religion -- Dust tracks on a road -- Out of step with civil rights -- Rediscovery and praise.
Language In English.
Closed-captioned.
Subject Hurston, Zora Neale.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Folklorists -- United States -- Biography.
Folklorists.
United States.
African American authors -- Biography.
African American authors -- Biography.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Biographies.
Added Author Andersen, Kristy.
Pollard, Sam.
Brockington, Kim.
Hugot, Marceline.
Merkerson, S. Epatha, 1952-
Hunter, Marian.
Vappie, Don, 1956-
Bay Bottom News (Firm)
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
California Newsreel (Firm)
Added Title Jump at the sun
American masters (Television program)