Zora Neale Hurston
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This definitive film biography portrays Zora Neale Hurston in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial but always fiercely original. To watch the entire documentary, to...
- 3 min
- 139.8K
- California Newsreel
Synopsis. Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature.
- Sam Pollard
- 83 min
- 5
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun: Directed by Sam Pollard. With Kim Brockington, Cab Calloway, Frank Robertson Jr., Henry Louis Gates Jr.. Author Zora Neale Hurston died in poverty in 1960 but today her novels are read throughout the world. Her controversial life story is explored in this biopic.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- Sam Pollard
- 2008-04-09
Aug 16, 2008 · Overview. Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature.
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump At The Sun Her novels explored the lives of ex-slaves in the Deep South. Critics said she promoted stereotypes - she said they rejected black culture.
Feb 1, 2009 · Hurston's life and works are illuminated through lively narration, archival film footage, insightful interviews with Hurston's friends, and commentary from renown Hurston scholars. This award-winning documentary not only fills a void in available biographical films on Hurston, it sets the standard for any that follow.
- DVD
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun. A path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon, established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. 96 1 h 23 min 2008. NR. Documentary · International.
