Cheating the stillness [DVD] : the world of Julia Peterkin / Lightfoot Films.

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    • Notes:
      Producer, director, writer, Gayla Jamison ; writers, Harlan Greene, Theodore Rosengarten, Susan Millar Williams ; executive producer, Elaine Freeman.
    • Abstract:
      Summary: Chronicles the controversial life of author Julia Peterkin, Pulitzer Prize winner for her sensitive portrayal of rural African Americans of the 1920's. Hailed by W.E.B. Du Bois for her "eye and ear to see beauty and hear truth, " this white plantation mistress shattered stereotypes of race and gender before she inexplicably stopped writing at the height of her career.
    • Notes:
      Narrator, Elisabeth Omilami.
    • Notes:
      This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
      Originally produced for public television broadcast in 2009.
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    • Accession Number:
      614443579
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.487788