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LITERARY ADAPTATIONS
With long traditions in the area of literature, adaptions to film has created a body of adaptions worthy of critical veiwing
AMERICA'S DREAM - Three shorts capture the joy, pain and struggle to hold on to dreams: "Long Black Song" - a farmer uses meagre earnings to buy his wife a gift, while she falls for a travelling salesman's line; "The boy Who Painter Christ Black" - a small town principal risks his job to defed a student's image of a Black Christ; "The Reunion" - A jazz pianist comes to terms with prejudices that have haunter her since childhood. $19.95
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN - Cicely Tyson displays one of her great performances as a former enslaved person whose life mirors the spectrum of civil rights history. $14.95
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS - Penned by the popular mystery writer Walter Mosley, the moodiness of 1940's LA is captured in this Easy Rawlins, PI film. $19.95
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN - James Baldwin's semi-autobiographical novel on film stars an ensemble cast including the late Roselyn Cash, about Baldwin's family and early years.$39.95
HOUSE OF DIES DREAR - By Virginia Hamilton, this family film tells the story of a family who moves into a house believed to be inhabited by ghosts from a slave massacure. $14.98
NATIVE SON - There are two versions, the first stars the author, Richard Wright playing his tragic character Bigger Thomas. Produced in 1951, Wright's intrepretation of bigger makes up for the weak performances. 89min. $29.95. The second version produced in the late 80's, stars Oprah Winfrey as Bigger's mother. $19.95
PEOPLE COULD FLY - Based on the folktake about ancient Africans who knew how to tap into their spirts to overcome physical limitations, this production weaves music and dance to teach young ones how access the spiritual power within to accomplish anything. $24.95
PIANO LESSON - August Wilson's 50's masterpiece focuses on the conflict between siblings regarding a historic artistic family heirloom piano. $19.95
QUEEN - Alex Hailey's fictionalized account of his grandmother's life stars Haile Berry. 3 cassettes, 283min. $39.95
A RAISEN IN THE SUN - Lorraine Hansberry's work has been adapted in two films: the first starred a legendary cast with Sidney Poitier, Diana Sands and; the second starred Danny Glover, Esther Rolle and Kim Yancy about a family's struggles to move to a house. $19.95/$39.95
ROOTS - The classic Alex Hailey epic that focused on a Family's saga beginning in Africa through enslavement. 6 cassettes $149.98
ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY - This coming of age story is on most school reading lists by Virginia Hamilton as she speaks from a preadolescent's voice in the segregated south. $19.95
SKY IS GRAY - A young boy's first trip to the dentist during the 1940's provides him an eye-opening view of poverty, racism and his sense of dignity, by Ernest J. Gaines $24.95
A SOLDIER'S STORY - Suspenseful collector's item captures several memorable perfomances as an African-Amer. military investigator is brought to a base to investigate the death of an African-Amer, Sergent, by Charles Fuller $14.95
SOLOMON NORTHRUP'S ODYESSEY - Based on a true story, directed by Gordan Parks, a free man is kidnapped into enslavement during a business trip, set during the savage and cruel period of American slavery. 113min. $29.95 (used - $14.95, several in stock)
SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR - The quessential spy novel by Sam Greenlee, was adapted from a screenplay by the author. It captures the essence of the book. $39.95
THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE - A Gloria Naylor novel stars Ophra Winfrey and an all star cast about a block of neighbors' lives. $19.95
ZOOMAN - Penned by Charles Fuller for the stage, an ex-fighter shames his neighbors after a murder. $19.95
