Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Avon Kirkland
Paul Benjamin
Thulani Davis
Stanley Crouch
Amiri Baraka
Jacques C Smith
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Synopsis
Born in Oklahoma in 1914, Ralph Ellison traveled to Harlem in the 1930s and became a writer of short stories and criticism. Influenced by novelist Richard Wright and others of that tumultuous era, he found his life changed by the publication of "Invisible Man" in 1952 and his winning of the National Book Award. Through clips from the first-ever scenes adapted from "Invisibe Man" and interviews with a range of luminary black intellectuals such as Cornel West and Thulani Davis, this documentary reopens a debate about the changing role of the black artist and, more specifically, about Ellison as a focus of criticism in the 1960s and as an icon of American literature.
Cast
Paul Benjamin
Thulani Davis
Stanley Crouch
Amiri Baraka
Jacques C Smith
Cornel West
Andrt Braugher
John Amos
Crew
Henry Adebonojo
Henry Adebonojo
Amiri Baraka
Richard Beggs
Laurie Coyle
Thulani Davis
Avon Kirkland
Avon Kirkland
Yanna Kroyt-brandt
Ken Schneider
Marcus Shelby
Robert Shepard
Robert Shepard
Barry Stone
Barry Stone
Cornel West
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Miscellaneous Notes
Broadcast in USA over PBS ("American Masters") February 19, 2002.
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Documentary Competition) in Park City, Utah January 10-20, 2002.
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