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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library Popular DVD 1st Floor	DVD FRENCH BLACK		AVAILABLE

Title	Black girl / a director, Ousmane Semb�ne.
Edition	Special edition.
OCLC	ocn965801374
ISBN	9781681432489
ISBN/ISSN	715515192019
Music number	CC2721DDVD The Criterion Collection
Publisher	[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Description	2 videodisc (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
	digital optical monaural rda
	video file DVD video rda
	Motion picture.
LC Subject heading/s	Household employees.
	Suicide.
	Self-esteem.
	Senegalese -- France -- Drama.
	Immigrants -- France -- Drama.
Other Genre heading/s	Feature films.
	Fiction films.
System details note	DVD.
Cast	M'bissine Therese Diop.
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.
Language note	French or Wolof dialogue; English subtitles.
General note	Title from sell sheet.
	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966.
	1.37:1 aspect ratio.
	Special features: excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT 20h, featuring Semb�ne accepting the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl; new interview with actor M'Bissine Th�r�se Diop; trailer; essay by critic Ashley Clark.

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