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Format:
Video disc
Title:
I am not your Negro
Uniform Title:
I am not your negro (Motion picture)
ISBN:
9786316846723
Distribution:
Los Angeles, CA : Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2017]
Production:
[United States] : Velvet Film, Inc., [2016]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 183 minutes total running time) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Title from title frame.

Based on James Baldwin's unfinished book, "Remember this house."

Originally produced as a documentary film in 2016.

Special features: Interview with director Raoul Peck; Q & A session with Samuel L. Jackson; Q & A session with director Raoul Peck; video photo gallery.

Includes previews of 3 other Magnolia Home Entertainment motion pictures (not included in total running time).
Contents:
Documentary (total running time 93:41 minutes : sound, black and white with color sequences): On Cavett -- Paying my dues -- Heroes -- Witness -- Memorandum -- Philosophies -- I was not a racist -- Medgar Evers -- Purity -- Sex symbols -- Selling the negro -- I'm sorry -- War -- What I know -- MLK Jr. -- Senseless. --

Special features (total running time 89:19 minutes : sound, color): Interview with director Raoul Peck (57:50 minutes) -- Q&A session with Samuel L. Jackson (14:25 minutes) -- Q&A session with director Raoul Peck (14:37 minutes) -- Video photo gallery (2:27 minutes) (archival black and white photos against mahogany table top, with background music).
Summary:
Using James Baldwin's unfinished final manuscript, Remember This House, this documentary follows the lives and successive assassinations of three of the author's friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., delving into the legacy of these iconic figures and narrating historic events using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. An up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, this film is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.

"I Am Not Your Negro envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, a radical narration about race in America, using [only] the writer's original words, as read by actor Samuel L. Jackson. Alongside a flood of rich archival material, the film draws upon Baldwin's notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. to explore and bring a fresh and radical perspective to the current racial narrative in America. Raoul Peck's Oscar-nominated documentary is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for."--PBS, About the documentary.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: PG-13; for disturbing violent images, thematic material, language and brief nudity.
Added Uniform Title:
Independent lens (Television program)
Electronic Access:
"I am not your negro, James Baldwin, and a moment in history." Arica L. Coleman, Time magazine, February 24, 2017. https://time.com/4680673/james-baldwin-documentary-history/
PBS Independent Lens webpage about I am not your negro: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/i-am-not-your-negro/
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