Bronx gothic
(DVD)

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Okpokwasili, Okwui, 1972- creator,
Lemon, Ralph, performer,
Rossi, Andrew, director,
Grasshopper Film (Firm) distributor.
Abstract Media, production company.
Published
New York : Abstract Media, 2017.
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Oak Lawn Public Library - AVDVD 792.8092 OKPOKWASOn Shelf
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Published
New York : Abstract Media, 2017.
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
UPC
853294007206

Notes

General Note
Based on the stage performance of "Bronx Gothic" created and performed by Okwui Okpokwasili ; directed for the stage, visual and sound design by Peter Born ; original songs by Okwui Okpokwasili ; lighting design by Peter Born with Carol Mullins.
General Note
Special features: The alphabet song; Okwui Okpokwasili master class; theatrical trailer.
General Note
Wide screen.
Creation/Production Credits
Director, Andrew Rossi ; Producers, Okwui Okpokwasili and Andrew Rossi ; Editor, Andrew Coffman ; Co-editors, Thomas Rivera Montes and Andrew Rossi ; Cinematographers, Bryan Sarkinen amd Andrew Rossi ; Additional cinematographer, Erik Ljung ; Original score by Ian Hultquist.
Participants/Performers
Okwui Okpokwasili, Ralph Lemon.
Description
Bronx Gothic is a portrait of writer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili as she stages a final tour for her one-woman show. Although the play within the play of Bronx Gothic is set in the 1980s, Okwui's piece is timely. She explains in the film that her depiction of a "vibrating brown body" is political insofar as all "black and brown bodies" have been inscribed with a history of violence in our culture. She says in the film that Americans have become "acculturated to seeing brown bodies in pain" and she hopes that "Bronx Gothic" will allow audience members to grow their empathic capacity while seeing her in a radical dance that presents the brown body from a new perspective. We follow Okwui as she tours "Bronx Gothic" around the country and conducts talkbacks with her audience. During these sessions, she interrogates both the formal elements of her show (e.g. durational performance, fragmented storytelling) and the political ramifications of her characters' actions and environment. This leads members of her audience to share emotional stories from their own lives, during some of the talk-backs.
System Details
DVD, widescreen.
Language
In English.
Local note
DVD

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Okpokwasili, O., Lemon, R., & Rossi, A. (2017). Bronx gothic . Abstract Media.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Okpokwasili, Okwui, 1972-, Ralph, Lemon and Andrew, Rossi. 2017. Bronx Gothic. Abstract Media.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Okpokwasili, Okwui, 1972-, Ralph, Lemon and Andrew, Rossi. Bronx Gothic Abstract Media, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Okpokwasili, Okwui, Ralph Lemon, and Andrew Rossi. Bronx Gothic Abstract Media, 2017.

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