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- The films shot by Zora Neale Hurston during her anthropological research trip through the US South (1927–1930) were perhaps the first professional recordings ever made by an African American woman.
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Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [ 1 ]: 17[ 2 ]: 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. [ 3 ]
Jan 17, 2023 · Narrator: When Zora Neale Hurston arrived at Mason’s Park Avenue penthouse on December 8, 1927 she was presented with a one-year contract. The document deemed Hurston an “independent agent...
Feb 6, 2024 · Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem...
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- American Experience | PBS
Better known for her work as a novelist, Zora Neale Hurston could be, according to an essay by Gloria Gibson, the first African-American woman filmmaker. The film footage, which includes Children’s Games (1928), Logging (1928), and Baptism (1929), appears to be from her work as a student of anthropology under the tutelage of famed ...
Jan 17, 2023 · With Vanessa Williams, Bahni Turpin, Lee D. Baker, Franz Boas. An in-depth biography of the influential author whose ground-breaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- Tracy Heather Strain
- 2023-01-17
Jan 17, 2023 · PBS’ American Experience premieres its documentary film this week on pioneering writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960). Directed by Tracy Heather Strain, Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space is the first film to explore Hurston’s life and ethnographic work in great detail.
Explore the dramatic period between 1963 and 1976, when a grief-stricken, then scandal-stricken America was forced to define the role of the vice president and the process of succession. A...
