| Edition |
Standard format. |
| Description |
1 DVD (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
digital |
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optical |
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Dolby |
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video file |
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DVD video |
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region 1 |
| Series |
PBS pictures
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PBS pictures.
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| System Details |
DVD; Dolby digital; region 1. |
| Cast |
Regina Taylor, Cherry Jones, Ellen Muth, Michael Gaston, Kohl Sudduth, Arlen Dean Snyder, C.C.H. Pounder. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Ernest Holzmann ; editor, Debra I. Moore ; music, Patrice Rushen. |
| Note |
Originally produced as an episode of the television program ExxonMobil Masterpiece theatre's American collection in 2000. |
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Based on the short story Cora unashamed by Langston Hughes. |
| Audience |
Not rated PBS Home Video. |
| Summary |
A town's lone African American woman is surrounded by social isolation and deep-seated racism while working as a housekeeper. Set in rural Iowa in the early 1900s, Cora is confronted with death, abortion and loneliness. Working as a domestic, she lives only for her daughter and the neglected child of her employers. |
| Language |
Soundtrack in English. |
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Closed-captioned. |
| Subject |
Mothers and daughters -- Iowa -- Drama.
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Mothers and daughters. |
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Iowa. |
| Genre/Form |
Drama.
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| Subject |
African American women household employees -- Drama.
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African American women household employees. |
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Women household employees -- Iowa -- Drama.
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Women household employees. |
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African American women -- Iowa -- Drama.
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African American women. |
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Loneliness -- Iowa -- Drama.
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Loneliness. |
| Genre/Form |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Television programs.
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Television programs.
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Television adaptations.
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Television adaptations.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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Drama.
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| Added Author |
Taylor, Regina, 1960-
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Jones, Cherry, 1956-
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Muth, Ellen, 1981-
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Gaston, Michael.
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Sudduth, Kohl.
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Snyder, Arlen Dean.
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Pounder, C. C. H.
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Rees, Marian.
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Peacock, Ann.
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Pratt, Deborah (Deborah M.)
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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Cora unashamed.
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ALT Films.
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WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
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Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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| Added Title |
Exxon Mobil Masterpiece Theatre's American collection.
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| ISBN |
1415709246 |
| Music No. |
705002 PBS Home Video |
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