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Black girl / a director, Ousmane Sembène.

Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007 (film director.). Diop, Mbissine Thérèse, (actor.). Criterion Collection (Firm), (publisher.). M'bissine Therese Diop. (Cast).

Summary:

A young Senegalese woman moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally, into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world.

Record details

ISBN: 9781681432472
ISBN: 1681432471
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out guide.
Edition: Special edition.
Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from sell sheet. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966. 1.37:1 aspect ratio. Special features: new 4k digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna; new interview with actor M'Bissine Thérèse Diop; On Black girl: a new interview with filmmaker and cutural theorist Manthia Diawara; alternate color sequence; excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT de 20h, featuring Sembène discussing his win of the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl; trailer; New English subtitle translation; 4K restoration of the short film Borrom sarret, director Ousmane Sembène's acclaimed 1963 debut; Sembène: the making of African cinema, a 1994 documentary about the filmmaker by Manthia Diawara and Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo; On Ousmane Sembène: a new interview with scholar Samba Godjigo ; in folded insert: essay by critic Ashley Clark.
Participant or Performer Note:	M'bissine Therese Diop.
System Details Note:	Blu-ray.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Licensed for: home, library, classroom, ILL.
Language Note:	French or Wolof dialogue; English subtitles.