Within Our Gates:

"Within Our Gates" is the earliest surviving feature film by an African American, a distinction that can make it seem merely some historic curiosity. Instead, the film remains dramatically gripping and socially audacious in so many ways. Its mixed-race cast allows it to grapple with issues...

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1. Verfasser: Miller, Paul D. (KomponistIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Micheaux, Oscar (RegisseurIn), Preer, Evelyn (SchauspielerIn), Clements, Flo (SchauspielerIn), Ruffin, James D. (SchauspielerIn)
Format: Video Software Buchkapitel
Sprache:Undetermined
Veröffentlicht: London bfi [2016]
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Zusammenfassung:"Within Our Gates" is the earliest surviving feature film by an African American, a distinction that can make it seem merely some historic curiosity. Instead, the film remains dramatically gripping and socially audacious in so many ways. Its mixed-race cast allows it to grapple with issues far beyond the scope both of later all black "race movies" and of tamer Hollywood productions: bigotry, miscegenation, the Great Migration north, racial uplift, and racial betrayal, all under the cloud of Jim Crow-era lynching. This second of Oscar Micheaux’s films (after the lost "The Homesteader") centers on a young, light-skinned African American named Sylvia Landry (played by Evelyn Preer, the lead also in eight lost Micheaux silents) with a mysterious past and a mission to raise funds in the North for a struggling school for black children in the South. [silentfilm.org]
Beschreibung:1 Blu-ray-Disc (74 Min.) schwarz-weiß