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Nat Turner: a troublesome property

Title
  1. Nat Turner: a troublesome property / directed by Charles Burnett.
Published by
  1. San Francisco : California Newsreel, c2002.

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Additional authors
  1. Christopher, Frank.
  2. Greenberg, Kenneth S.
  3. Burnett, Charles, 1944-
  4. Capps, Todd Holden
  5. Woodard, Alfre, 1953-
  6. Lumbly, Carl.
  7. Hicks, Tommy.
  8. Opher, James.
  9. LeMelle, Michael A.
  10. Waller, Patrick.
  11. Dye, Billy.
  12. KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
  13. Subpix LLC.
  14. California Newsreel (Firm), film distributor.
  15. National Endowment for the Humanities.
Description
  1. 1 videodisc (57 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. Evaluates the authenticity of the earliest source, "The Confessions of Nat Turner", assembled by a white Virginia lawyer from jailhouse interviews. It then follows the controversy over the Nat Turner story played out through history. Alvin Poussaint and Ossie Davis recall how Nat Turner became a hero in the Black community. Religious scholar Vincent Harding and legal scholar Martha Minow reflect on America's attitudes toward terrorism. One of the most bitter race battles of the 1960s is reexamined, when William Styron published his novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner.
Subject
  1. Documentary films
  2. Slave insurrections > Virginia > Historiography
  3. Styron, William, 1925-2006 > Confessions of Nat Turner
  4. Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 > In literature
  5. Southampton Insurrection, 1831
  6. Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 > In art
  7. African Americans in literature
  8. Biographical films
  9. Documentary films > History > Sources
  10. American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  11. Slavery in literature
  12. Literature and history > Virginia > History > 19th century
  13. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  14. Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 > Influence
Genre/Form
  1. Biographical films.
  2. Documentary films.
Contents
  1. 1830s: Turner's slave rebellion -- 1830s: Amanuensis Thomas R. Gray -- 1850-60s: Novelist Harried Beecher Stowe, Abolitionist William Wells Brown -- 1930s: WPA Ex-slave oral history -- 1930s: Dramatist Randolph Edmonds -- 1960s: Novelist William Styron -- 1960s: Ten black writers respond -- Present: Documentary film as interpretation.
Call number
  1. Sc Visual DVD-1894
Note
  1. Originally produced for television in 2002.
Credits (note)
  1. Screenwriters, Charles Burnett, Frank Christopher, Kenneth S. Greenberg ; producer, Charles Burnett ; cinematographer, John Demps ; editors, Frank Christopher, Michael Colin ; composers, Todd Capps, Stephen James Taylor ; California Newsreel presents ; produced in association with KQED Public Television, a production of Subpix LLC.
Performer (note)
  1. Carl Lumbly (Nat Turner) [Gray segment], Tommy Hicks (Nat Turner) [Edmonds segment], James Opher (Nat Turner) [Styron segment], Michael Lemelle (Nat Turner) [Brown segment], Patrick Waller (Nat Turner) [Stowe segment], Billy Dye (Nat Turner), Tom Nowicki (Thomas R. Gray), Megan Gallagher (Margaret Whitehead), Moses Gibson (Allen Crawford).
Funding (note)
  1. Principal funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
System details (note)
  1. DVD.
Language (note)
  1. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Title
  1. Nat Turner: a troublesome property / directed by Charles Burnett.
Imprint
  1. San Francisco : California Newsreel, c2002.
Type of content
  1. two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
  1. video
Type of carrier
  1. videodisc
System details
  1. DVD.
Performer
  1. Narrator, Alfre Woodard ; commentators, Eric Foner, Peter Wood, Mary Kemp Davis, Ekewueme Michael Thelwell, Henry Louis Gates, Vincent Harding, Herbert Aptheker, William Styron, Kitty Futrell, Eugene Genovese, Rick Francis, Bruce Turner, Martha Minow, Ray Winbush, Ossie Davis, Alvin Poussaint, Ayoku Babu, James McGee, Charles Burnett, Kenneth S. Greenberg, Thomas Parramore, Louise Meriwether, Loyle Hairston ; historian, Kenneth S. Greenberg.
Cast
  1. Carl Lumbly (Nat Turner) [Gray segment], Tommy Hicks (Nat Turner) [Edmonds segment], James Opher (Nat Turner) [Styron segment], Michael Lemelle (Nat Turner) [Brown segment], Patrick Waller (Nat Turner) [Stowe segment], Billy Dye (Nat Turner), Tom Nowicki (Thomas R. Gray), Megan Gallagher (Margaret Whitehead), Moses Gibson (Allen Crawford).
Credits
  1. Screenwriters, Charles Burnett, Frank Christopher, Kenneth S. Greenberg ; producer, Charles Burnett ; cinematographer, John Demps ; editors, Frank Christopher, Michael Colin ; composers, Todd Capps, Stephen James Taylor ; California Newsreel presents ; produced in association with KQED Public Television, a production of Subpix LLC.
Funding
  1. Principal funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Language
  1. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
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Added author
  1. Christopher, Frank.
  2. Greenberg, Kenneth S.
  3. Burnett, Charles, 1944- film director.
  4. Capps, Todd Holden, composer.
  5. Woodard, Alfre, 1953-
  6. Lumbly, Carl.
  7. Hicks, Tommy.
  8. Opher, James.
  9. LeMelle, Michael A.
  10. Waller, Patrick.
  11. Dye, Billy.
  12. KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
  13. Subpix LLC.
  14. California Newsreel (Firm), film distributor.
  15. National Endowment for the Humanities.
Research call number
  1. Sc Visual DVD-1894
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