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Title:

Compensation [videorecording] / Wimmin with a Mission Productions presents ; a film by Zeinabu Irene Davis ; producers, Zeinabu Irene Davis, Marc Chéry ; writer, Marc Arthur Chéry ; director, Zeinabu Irene Davis.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Distributed by Women Make Movies,

Copyright Date:

2007?, c1999

Description:

1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

African American women--Drama.
African Americans--History--20th century--Drama.
Deaf women--Drama.
Discrimination--United States--Drama.
Silent films.
Documentary films.
Fiction films.

Other Authors:

Davis, Zeinabu. drt. drt.
Chéry, Marc Arthur. aus. aus.
Jelks, John Earl. act.
Banks, Michelle A. act.
Robinson, Reginald R. cmp.
Jali, Atiba Y. cmp.
Pierson, John, 1954-
Welbon, Yvonne, 1962-
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906. Compensation.
Wimmin with a Mission Productions.
Women Make Movies (Firm)

Other Titles:

Working with a deaf actress.

Notes:

This disc is a recorded DVD and may fail to play on some DVD equipment. Inspired by the poem Compensation, by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Originally produced in 1999. Followed by: "Working with a deaf actress," an excerpt from the cable television program Split screen; originally broadcast Aug. 28, 1998. Host, John Pierson ; segment producer, Yvonne Welbon (7 min.) John Earl Jelks, Michelle A. Banks. Public performance rights included.

Summary:

Presents parallel stories of two deaf, African American women, one set in the early 1900s and the other in the 1990s. The film's narrative illustrates the two women's struggles to overcome racism, disability, and discrimination in their respective time periods.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)154205709

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)