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Juke.
In JUKE, Thom Andersen, director of cinematic masterworks like *Los Angeles Plays Itself* and *The Thoughts That Once We Had* reconsiders the films of Spencer Williams, the pioneering African American screenwriter, director, and actor whose 1940s melodramas centered on sinners and saints who are tem...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
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| Language: | English |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Grasshopper Film,
2015.
Kanopy Streaming, 2019. |
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Streaming video (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | Kanopy |
| Summary: | In JUKE, Thom Andersen, director of cinematic masterworks like *Los Angeles Plays Itself* and *The Thoughts That Once We Had* reconsiders the films of Spencer Williams, the pioneering African American screenwriter, director, and actor whose 1940s melodramas centered on sinners and saints who are tempted by jazz and sex and then set back on the glory road to salvation. Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, JUKE is an essential work of historical excavation. Official Selection at the **Viennale Film Festival** and the **Rotterdam Film Festival**. *"A work of enraptured advocacy. It is at once a threadbare epic of mysterious narrative following the dancing, despair and sins of a swathe of 1940s African American characters, an essential documentary on African American cultural specificity of the era, and, of course, a tantalizing teaser and incentive to track down these astounding productions." - **The Notebook*** |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. Film. In Process Record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): .flv file, sound |
| Language: | In English. |
| Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Originally produced by Grasshopper Film in 2015. |