Showing roots
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Showing roots
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The work Showing roots represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.
- Label
- Showing roots
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael Mailer Films and Ostar Productions present in association with Upload Films/AM-PM Enterprises a Michael Mailer/Jeffrey Hayes production ; produced by Michael Mailer, Susan Batten, Nick Thurlow ; directed by Michael Wilson ; written by Susan Batten
- Subject
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- Southern States
- Southern States -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- African Americans
- Race relations
- Race relations -- Drama
- Interracial friendship
- Fiction films
- Fiction films
- Feature films
- Feature films
- Drama
- Beauty operators -- Drama
- Beauty operators
- African Americans -- Drama
- Interracial friendship -- Drama
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In 1977, as the miniseries "Roots" hits the airwaves, two women are inspired to try and integrate their small Southern town. In a place where there are still "right" and "wrong" sides of the tracks, these two young women - one white, one black - forge an unlikely friendship that sparks a journey of independence and self-discovery, and ultimately results in the creation of the perfect hairdo
- Cataloging source
- KAA
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Credits note
- Director of photography, Yaron Levy ; editor, Andrew Drazek ; composer, John Gromada
- Dewey number
- 791.43/72
- Language note
- English dialogue; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
- LC call number
- PN1997.2
- LC item number
- .S46 2015
- PerformerNote
- Maggie Grace, Uzo Aduba, Elizabeth McGovern, Adam Brody, and Cicely Tyson
- Runtime
- 100
- Technique
- live action
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