Black Girl.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | The Criterion Collection, 1966. |
| Publication | [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021. |
| Description | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (60 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound |
| Supplemental Content | A Kanopy streaming video |
| Supplemental Content | Cover Image |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007 film director. |
| Other author/creator | Jelinek, Anne-Marie, actor. |
| Other author/creator | Diop, Mbissine Thérèse, actor. |
| Other author/creator | Fontaine, Robert, 1924-1973, actor. |
| Other author/creator | Criterion Collection (Firm) distributor. |
| Other author/creator | Kanopy (Firm), distributor. |
| Abstract | Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century--and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the world. He made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring BLACK GIRL. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot--about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally--into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by Mbissine Thérèse Diop, BLACK GIRL is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement--and one of the essential films of the 1960s. |
| General note | Title from title frames. |
| General note | Film |
| General note | In Process Record. |
| Performer | Anne-Marie Jelinek, M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, Robert Fontaine |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1966. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Terms of use | Public performance rights included in purchase. |
| Language | In French |
| Genre/form | Feature films. |
| Publisher number | 11913163 Kanopy |